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...Business University. The strain of such a working schedule soon began to tell. In 1942 Braunsdorf fell ill, put all his earnings in a florist shop to recoup his finances, but eventually had to sell it at a loss. Finally, he resigned himself to leaving Virginia at a private sanitarium...
...visited her constantly. But he worried about her future. He lost his job in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, which, after constant financial difficulty, finally folded up. One morning last spring, he called at the sanitarium, told attendants he was taking Virginia to a dentist, drove her away in his automobile. Down a side road, he stopped his car, put a pillow behind the girl's head, and shot her dead. Then he fired two shots into his own chest, lost consciousness, revived, and shot himself twice more...
Same Strength. Two years later Munch entered a Copenhagen sanitarium for treatment of his alcoholism. Cured, he returned to Norway, spent the rest of his long life painting in semi-seclusion. His pictures grew steadily bigger and more objective, lost none of their power...
...their trade from other counterfeiters. Hugo taught himself-in the St. Louis public library. He began his studies in 1922, when he was 29. He had come to the U.S. from Sweden in 1909, had drifted from one odd job to another, had spent a year in a tuberculosis sanitarium, and was down & out. Hour after hour, day after day, he sat in the reading room, poring over books on photography, engraving and the history and manufacture of money...
...with using the mails to defraud, Hopson could account for such expenditures as a 10? bone for an unidentified dog, but not for $20 million swindled from stockholders. Jailed on a five-year sentence in 1941, he was released in 1944 to live out his life in a mental sanitarium...