Word: leblanc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beautiful Georgette Leblanc, an opera singer who claimed to have fallen in love with his poems when she was only 16, placed her heart at his feet. They set up joint housekeeping and a salon sparkling with the brightest names...
...knew a little more. In 1930, on a trip through Africa and the Middle East, Novelist Evelyn Waugh had dined with Besse on the roof of his home in Aden. Waugh had described him (under the pseudonym of M. Leblanc) in When the Going Was Good: "He talked of Abyssinia, where he had heavy business undertakings ... he expressed his contempt for the poetry of Rimbaud . . ." He thrived on risk and had made and lost more than one fortune. He liked shark-infested waters: it made swimming more interesting...
Dolores Costello, 41, blonde screen belle of the '20s and early '30s, was haled into a Los Angeles court by her brother-in-law, Lee LeBlanc. The court had given Dolores custody of his six-year-old daughter; now he wanted the right to see her on weekends...
...start of France's annual Prix Alfred Leblanc balloon race, and nine dauntless aeronauts from France, The Netherlands and Switzerland were on hand to compete for the grand prize of 6,000 francs (about the price of a good pair of shoes). The French aeronaut, Pierre Jacquet, turned up in a natty sports suit and floppy hat with two duck feathers stuck in it. Erich Tilgenkamp, the Swiss entry, looked trim and sharp in his checkered cap, despite an anguished evening spent searching for his balloon, which had somehow got lost in the freight shed of Paris' Gare...
...reasons that no big-city dweller would have trouble understanding, folks live a long time in quiet, peaceful West Pubnico; Dr. Philippe d'Entremont and Dr. Thomas Leblanc (who married a d'Entremont) are never too busy. Pubniconians who die before they are 80 are accounted victims of accident. Some manage to attain...