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Founded in 1737 by a wealthy French sailor, Charity is one of the oldest general hospitals in the U. S. Its troubles began in 1928 when Huey Long kicked out the old director, appointed in his place Surgeon Arthur Vidrine, a promising young man scarcely out of medical school. Then Huey invited Cajuns, Creoles and hillbillies to come on in for quick cures. Result: patients were packed two and three in a bed, many sleeping in the halls, under crumbling plaster...
...When Huey was shot, Dr. Vidrine operated on him, against the advice of some more conservative surgeons. After Huey's death, an unfair cloud of suspicion drove Dr. Vidrine from Charity, and in 1936 he was succeeded by Dr. George Sam Bel, a courtly Creole. Last year, shortly before the new hospital was finished, Dr. Bel died. New Orleanians whispered that he had killed himself, suspected that he was involved in some dark construction scandal. But the elderly heart specialist, his colleagues proved, was felled by a heart attack...
Although he was Huey's personal physician, attended Huey's successor Dick Leche, and many another Louisiana boss, Dr. D'Aunoy sticks to his laboratory, stays out of politics. For his tireless six-year labors at Charity the board of directors awarded him the empty title of Medical Consultant...
...contributed by WPA), but so thriftily did Dr. D'Aunoy manage contracts that 30 FBI men, snooping from last June to January, could scent no trace of graft, a situation amazing in spoor-heavy Louisiana. Planted squarely between Tulane and Louisiana State University Medical School (built by Huey in a burst of rage against aristocratic Tulane), the hospital offers both schools equal laboratory and clinical facilities...
...When Huey Long was assassinated in 1935, Governor Richard Webster Leche (now under a Federal indictment for fraud) took over the paper. When Leche resigned last summer, Governor Earl Kemp Long, Huey's brother, bought American Progress for $188,000. Last week Earl Long too was out of office, twice beaten at the polls (TIME, March 4), his political machine a shambles...