New book from a former Kansas Citian

In this last Sunday's New York Times Book Review section, there was a terrific article about long-gone Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr and how actually brilliant she was in scientific, discovery ways (see 1st link at bottom).

It seems she worked on "drafting and redrafting designs... for (a) torpedo system" and a " 'proximity fuse' antiaircraft shell" and other surprising systems. Unfortunately, because she was a) a woman, b) beautiful and c) from Hollywood, the Defense Department and government didn't take her or her work--with George Antheil, "the former musical anarchist"--seriously. There's a shock, huh? Anyway, it's written by Missour native and former Kansas Citian Richard Rhodes. Really, fascinating stuff. Links: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/book-review-podcast-a-brainy-beauty-and-world-war-ii/