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====Wartime fundraiser==== Lamarr wanted to join the [[National Inventors Council]], but was reportedly told by NIC member [[Charles F. Kettering]] and others that she could better help the war effort by using her celebrity status to sell [[War bond#United States 2|war bonds]].<ref>{{cite journal|author-link=Robert A. Scholtz|first=Robert A.|last=Scholtz|title=The Origins of Spread-Spectrum Communications|journal=IEEE Transactions on Communications|volume=30|issue=5|date=May 1982|page=822|doi=10.1109/tcom.1982.1095547|bibcode=1982ITCom..30..822S}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author-link=Robert Price (engineer)|first=Robert|last=Price|title=Further Notes and Anecdotes on Spread-Spectrum Origins|journal=IEEE Transactions on Communications|volume=31|issue=1|date=January 1983|page=85|doi=10.1109/tcom.1983.1095725}}</ref> She participated in a war-bond-selling campaign with a sailor named Eddie Rhodes. Rhodes was in the crowd at each Lamarr appearance, and she would call him up on stage. She would briefly flirt with him before asking the audience if she should give him a kiss. The crowd would say yes, to which Hedy would reply that she would if enough people bought war bonds. After enough bonds were purchased, she would kiss Rhodes and he would head back into the audience. Then they would head off to the next war bond rally.<ref>Wayne, Robert L. "''Moses''" ''Speaks to His Grandchildren'', Dog Ear Publishing (2014); {{ISBN|978-1-4575-3321-1}}, pg. 19.</ref>
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