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Self-education was Eartha’s new obsession. She had recently become an avid reader and would remain one for the rest of her life. Hers was a genuine, if sometimes naïve, quest for knowledge. In the early years of her fame hardly an interview would go by without her telling the reporter about all the improving texts she had been reading. This thirst for learning had started in Hollywood when she found herself surrounded by people who would be discussing the state of the world – Stalin and Roosevelt and the emergent Cold War – when all she felt qualified to talk about was the latest fashions or dance styles. ‘I was constantly amazed at myself because I had not taught my mind to think enough of me to read the proper books, or think there was any more to a newspaper than Dick Tracy and Little Orphan Annie.’

When someone says Webby is 14 but you have a bunch of information that says otherwise