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Very Sassy. The man responsible for the murky brown medicine is Louisiana's plump State Senator Dudley J. LeBlanc, 56, who had to rustle up a new business after he made the mistake of running for governor in 1932 against a Huey Long candidate. Recovering from a bout of rheumatism when his doctors gave him vitamin B-complex, LeBlanc saw that there was money as well as health in vitamins. He boned up on the subject by reading at home, decided that vitamins would be better if mixed with minerals...
...LeBlanc got a barrel and a batch of supplies, stirred his mixture up with a paddle, added 12% ethyl alcohol as a preservative, ladled out his first brew with a coffee cup. "I took the first 14 bottles," he says solemnly, "and I was first-rate...
...BERTRAND LEBLANC San Francisco, Calif...
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...