Gayelord Hauser (Wikipedia)
secondary literature · 2026
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SUMMARY
Tertiary biographical reference, fetched directly 7 July 2026. Used only for the uncontested biographical spine, corroborated where possible against the primary and scholarly sources in this bundle: full name Benjamin Gayelord Hauser (born Helmut Eugen Benjamin Gellert Hauser), born 17 May 1895 in Tubingen, Germany, died 26 December 1984 in North Hollywood, California; immigrated to the US in 1911; joined the Milwaukee firm Modern Products (maker of the herbal laxative Swiss Kriss) with brother-in-law Sebastian Gysin in 1925; moved to Hollywood in 1927; book list with years (Harmonized Food Selection 1930 through Gayelord Hauser's Treasury of Secrets 1963); and the named client list (Adele Astaire, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Grace Kelly, Ingrid Bergman, the Duchess of Windsor, Baron Philippe de Rothschild). NOT relied on for the claim that 'the AMA seized' Look Younger, Live Longer: the primary federal court opinions in this bundle (United States v. 8 Cartons ..., W.D.N.Y. 1951) show the libellant was the United States government under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, not the AMA, and the bundle follows the primary record over this secondary paraphrase.
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The Wikipedia article on Gayelord Hauser is used in this bundle strictly as a tertiary reference for uncontested biographical facts (birth/death dates and places, the book-title list with publication years, the 1925 Modern Products business history, and the named client roster), each cross-checked against the primary and peer-reviewed sources cited elsewhere in the bundle where those sources also speak to the same fact. Where Wikipedia’s account diverges from a primary source in this bundle, the primary source controls: the article (like Thompson et al. 2020) attributes the 1951 seizure of Look Younger, Live Longer to the American Medical Association, but the federal court opinions themselves (United States v. 8 Cartons, More or Less, Molasses, Etc., 97 F. Supp. 313, W.D.N.Y. 1951; United States v. 8 Cartons, Containing Plantation ‘The Original’ Etc., Molasses, 103 F. Supp. 626, W.D.N.Y. 1951) show the action was a federal government libel under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, so this bundle attributes the seizure to the FDA/federal government rather than the AMA.