Jane Case was the daughter of Theodore Case, a physicist whose own contributions to communications technology—he pioneered sound in movies and worked during World War I to develop the Navy’s ship-to-shore communications—had made him a wealthy man. Jane grew up in a huge house in Auburn, New York, where she had been crushingly lonely. Her mother was insecure and belittled Jane, making her conscious of her imperfections, such as highlighting her nearsightedness by snatching the glasses off her face. Jane, to her relief, was sent away to the Chapin School on the Upper East Side of New York City.
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