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...Clement Raynaud, 48, a serious fellow, had always been interested in the occult, even when he was a cop. He got a diploma in graphology from one of those schools that advertise in pulp magazines. In a small laboratory in Toulouse in 1946 he began making a secret perfume of eau de cologne, Cyprian essence, ferns, the excretions of vipers and scorpions. Raynaud advertised: "This perfume is especially prepared to help you, even through the mails, to seduce, charm, or to awaken in you and in others troubling desires. To fortify your amorous magnetism, just a drop on a love...
...Soon Raynaud was shipping out 100 bottles a day, at 300 to 1,000 francs a bottle. A grateful Swedish lady testified: "Thanks to your perfume I rediscovered the love of my fiance who, formerly very cold, now leaps with passion on to my perfumed breast." Wrote a Minnesota housewife: "Thanks to your perfume my husband came back to me. Please send another bottle so I can hold...
...Raynaud's biggest market was Africa. At Brazzaville, in French Equatorial Africa, High Commissioner Bernard Cornut-Gentile, engaged in a war against native fetishism, found Raynaud's love potion filling the air around him. High Commissioner Cornut-Gentile wrote to the district attorney at Toulouse: "With the use of this magnetized love perfume we are marking a return to sorcery. This dangerous current must be stopped." The Toulouse district attorney hauled Raynaud to court and charged him with fraud. Raynaud, who is a bachelor himself, stoutly argued that his was "an agreeable perfume which fixes the sentiments...
...Alphand has only recently turned professional. Before the war she was prominent in Paris society; she is the wife of Herve Alphand, former Treasury attaché of the Vichy Government in Washington. Her father, Rober-Raynaud, founded La Dépêche Marocaine, the first French daily newspaper in Morocco. When the Alphands arrived in the U.S. three years ago, Herve Alphand said: "In France now there are only two things to do: to work and to be silent. I have come here to work and to be silent." But he did not stay silent long. Less than...
...body's signal system. Along this line is the work of the Mayo Clinic's handsome senior brain surgeon. Dr. Alfred Washington Adson. Dr. Adson told the London Congress the technique, which he worked out with a Mayo associate, Dr. George Elgie Brown, of stopping Raynaud's Disease. This is a disease to which neurotic young women are peculiarly susceptible. After exposure to cold, shock or insult, their fingers or toes turn white, feel icy, grow numb, hurt. Attacks last from a few minutes to an hour. After many attacks the fingers or toes decay, may drop...