ABSTRACT

Johan Johansson, 57, a widower with no children who lives in a small Brooklyn apartment on a $521 monthly disability check, walked with the aid of leg braces as he came to claim his $2.25 million prize in the New York state lottery. “I want my health. Money or no money, that’s the most important thing in life,” said Johansson.... He said he intends to stay in the apartment where his wife died and where he said he now mostly watches television. (Cleveland Press, September 20, 1981, p. 2)