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Article: LUCILLE BALL S DEAD AT 77
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 27, 1989
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LOS ANGELES - Lucille Ball, the daffy comedian whose
harebrained schemes drove her television family crazy but delighted
viewers for four decades, died yesterday of a ruptured abdominal
artery. She was 77.
The actress, star of the hugely popular "I Love Lucy" and
related situation comedies seen in more than 80 countries, had
undergone major heart surgery April 18.
She had been recovering steadily, getting out of bed and
joking with the staff, but shortly before dawn she went into
cardiac arrest due to internal bleeding and could not be revived,
said Cedars-Sinai Medical Center spokesman Ronald Wise.
Miss Ball, with her fire-engine red hair and siren wail, was
considered the ...