Enrichetta Negrini was an Italian research scientist and graduate student attending Ivy College. After initially meeting her during a case involving a crook with a special light ray weapon, Ray "Atom" Palmer enlisted her aid in tracking down the precise frequency used by the Hyper-Thief claiming to use hyper-space in his thefts. Thanks to Negrini's assistance. the Atom discovered that the criminal used a special device to open safes with their valuables hidden to be stolen later.
Lana Kurree was an American research and graduate student of Holliday College. After developing am experimental cancer treatment known as Plasmin, her fiancée tricked her into believing her medicine caused the death of a man, in order to have her sign over this drug trial research to him. When her fellow sorority sisters from the Holliday Girls convinced her to take a break from the laboratory to clear her thoughts, she discovered possessing the inexplicable ability* to pull herself and those around her though time to different time periods!
During another case, a radion ball disappeared when an alien appeared in Ivy Town. However, Atom later revealed that Enrichetta hid the ball in hyper-space! Later, the Atom saves the lives of Negrini's foster parents, and on another occasion Enrichetta temporarily manifests the mental ability* to transmute human flesh into gold from her dreams!
While working alongside Professor Palmer as his lab assistant, Enrichetta invented a hyper-space prober that emitted ionic magnetic beams through the ether. This began pulling Earths One and Two into the same vibratory space, drawing the attention of an explorer from the Anti-Matter Universe. Alongside his Justice League allies and the Justice Society, Atom helped saved both worlds from colliding together.
As for Doctor Kurree, she pulled herself along with with Etta Candy and a few Holliday Girls accompanying them on mountain retreat through time. Arriving in 1st century Rome, Lana assumed the identity of Italian noblewoman Servilia and was drawn to an analogue of her 20th century boyfriend, himself also deceptive. Thankfully, Etta contacted Wonder Woman who used Paula VonGunther’s Space Time Transformer to travel back to that era and retrieve the girls. Another side trip to the 1840 where Lana adopted the alias of Prudence Beene found her replaying the same scenario, after which she and her friends returned to their normal time period. Finally uncovering the truth, Doctor Kurree was redeemed with her name cleared, and her treacherous boyfriend exposed as a criminal.
Apparently, while Enrichetta used devices to bend space and time to her will, her doppelgänger Lana possessed these same attributes yet internalized within her body, through some undisclosed means. It is theorized that in fact Enrichetta manifested the same abilities as Lana, however through a different mechanism. While Kurree unleashed these cosmic forces from her subconscious mind upon natural forces around her, Negrini harnessed these through her conscious mind using mechanical means to project these cosmic forces.
* Interestingly, while Enrichetta was a physicist and Lana/Servilia was a chemist, the former could alter chemical composition of matter with her mind while the the latter could manipulate physics opening hyperspace portals with her mind!
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