The Law: Death by Overwork

Denver University's Law College dean was a frail, ailing man. But he was also a perfectionist, and it was with characteristic intensity that William Gordon Johnston, 54, attacked the final 48 hours of his life. He worked a full day at the university, stayed up late polishing a speech he would make the following evening. Next morning. Dean Johnston went by the campus to catch up on his paperwork, drove to Boulder for a Colorado State Bar Association meeting, stayed on for a banquet of Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. He delivered the banquet address, at meal's end accepted...

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