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Article: Queen Silver.
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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She once said of a speech I'd given, "The brain will absorb only what the bottom can endure." I'd been long-winded. These grandmotherly words came from a seventies-something woman, a humanist with the unlikely name of Queen Silver.
When she was eight years old, notable scientists like Luther Burbank called her the "Girl Wonder" and the "Girl Scientist" because of her lectures on Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. At fourteen, after she successfully defended her mother in criminal court, the Los Angeles Evening Express proclaimed her a "Modern Portia." To the legendary film producer Cecil B. DeMille, she became a role model for his movie The Godless Girl (1929). ...