She had A.D.D. (attention deficit disorder) also by the look of the
article
When will the "doctors" and "psycologists" realise that A.D.D. is not a
dissorder, but an adventurer & or inventor type personality ! It is
rigidly regimented civilisation that provides the label: ADD.

Tom Handley wrote:
>
>    An interesting note about the late Hedy (That's Hedly ;-) Lamarr from
> EDTN's e-mail newsletter:
>
> TECHNOLOGY
> --Actress, inventor Hedy Lamarr dead at 86--
> Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr, who was found dead at her home last
> Wednesday (Jan. 19), left a legacy of striking screen appearances and
> of an electronics invention that even now is changing the face of
> communications. Best known as a 1940s glamour girl, the Viennese-born
> Lamarr, who was 86, also co-invented a spread-spectrum technique for
> secure communications. As legend has it, she and avant-garde composer
> George Antheil developed the idea while improvising duets on the
> piano, after they realized they were reacting to one another's key
> changes.
>

http://www.edtn.com/story/tech/OEG20000120S0042-T
>
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> Tom Handley
> New Age Communications
> Since '75 before "New Age" and no one around here is waiting for UFOs ;-)