Word: rigney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Governor Leche, 39, and a year younger than Dr. Vidrine, sent that able man packing-he is now in private practice in New Orleans. Pathologist Joseph Rigney D'Aunoy became dean of University of Louisiana's Medical School, Cardiologist George Samuel Bel became director of Charity Hospital. And with Dean Charles Cassedy Bass of Tulane's Medical School, these doctors set out to regain for Louisiana a good name in the medical profession...
Most memorable was the case of Pilot Arthur Rigney and his passenger, I. J. Escalante, who elected to take a short cut across the pathless swamps south of Lake Okeechobee on their way to the races, instead of following the established airway from Tampa. The throttle rod of their Bird biplane broke; down the ship slanted, gently but permanently, into the 6-ft. swamp grass and ooze. Next noonday another pilot who was imprudent enough to fly the short-cut spotted the stranded plane, hurried on to Miami whence an autogiro and two Goodyear blimps were sent to the rescue...