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...fraud, claimed that he had given Morton the tip on the powers of ether. Up popped Dr. Long with a sheaf of documents to prove that he was first. Confronted by conflicting claims, Congress did nothing. Morton died a pauper in 1868. Jackson went mad, died in an asylum several years later. During the Civil War, Long buried his documents in the woods. Later he dug them up and stored them in the garret. He died an embittered old man in 1878. And nobody has the clear credit...
...first of the real-estate sharks and boosters are on the scene when Parris Mitchell comes back to take a post at the State insane asylum. And in the last half of the novel the quickening optimism and pretense of the 20th Century are played off against the sterile meanness and tragedy unfolded to young Dr. Mitchell. If Author Bellamann's art were up to his understanding, the result would leave readers shaken. As it is, they may feel sick...
...prison, and Göring was near the end of his rope. In Italy he tried to interest Fascists in Naziism, failed to impress Mussolini. Back in Sweden, he took to morphine (which he had probably first used under the stress of wartime flying), was committed to an asylum. The psychiatrist who treated him diagnosed him as an "extremely dangerous asocial hysteric." When he was released, Karin's child by her first husband was not allowed to live with the Görings...
...advertised on the recruiting posters-of life below deck, in port, under good captains and bad-but goes on a spree with his plot in which curly-headed Kelly falls for a sweet girl, his pal Mac is court-martialed for theft, another pal is taken off to the asylum, Kelly's wife goes to prison for killing another of the fraternity...
With best-seller and lecture profits, Author Belbenoit a year ago bought a house on Long Island, married an American, increased his weight from 97 to his normal 110 lbs. But last week, defeated in his fight to win U. S. asylum, he was again a fugitive, somewhere in Central America...