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Roberf Tayfor Dies Sunday Of Lung Cancer Af Age 57 HOLLYWOOD (AP) Robert Taylor, leading man to many of the most glamorous stars in films during a career which spanned 35 years, is dead of cancer at 57. The dark good looks projected him to the top in 1935 opposite Irene Dunne in "Magnificent Obsession" and Greta Garbo in "Camille." During his career he was also billed with such names as Jean Harlow, Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, Myrna Loy, Joan Crawford, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, Katharine Hepburn and Greer in sentimental films designed to appeal to women. Biggest Years He was married to another star, Barbara Stanwyck, for 11 years. In his biggest years, around 1940 to 1950, Taylor was one of screen's highest paid actors. But he said he never planned it that way.

"I went into acting because it was the only job offered to me at the time," he said once. "It's not my sole interest in life, being an actor, but it's the only one that made me any money." Other Interests He threw himself vigorously ROBERT TAYLOR into his other interests: flying, hunting, fishing and ranching. Before he died of lung cancer Sunday, Taylor had been in and out of the hospital seven times in nine months. He spent the rest of the time at his 113-acre suburban ranch, where he raised quarter horses and chickens. A spokesman said Taylor knew his disease, discovered Newlyweds Home Is Tor The Birds' MOLD, Wales (AP) Gareth Shaw won't be able to bring Menna Owen home to his new $12,000 house when they marry this month because a thrush is nesting on three eggs just inside the door.

When the workmen building the house found the nest, they left. "There is an unwritten law in building never to disturb a bird's nest," said a construction company official. "I'm very sorry for Mr. Shaw but we will on with his house when the birds leave." "I was a bit choked when the builder told me," the 25-year-old bridegroom said, "but the birds are entitled to a home and to bring up a family as much as we are. It will mean finding an apartmenj for a month until the house is finished." James A.

Perkins Resigns As President Of Cornell U. ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) The resignation of James A. Perkins as president of Cornell University has been accepted by the university trustees. The trustees decided Sunday that full executive authority would be given to Dale R.

Corson, the university provost, until a successor to. Perkins can be found. Perkins handed in his resignation in the wake of racial disorders at Cornell in April. late The last year, 170-pound was terminal. 6-footer quit smoking cigarettes in October before most of a lung was removed because of what was then described as a fungus infection called valley fever.

He had been a three-pack-a-day man who said he I was a kid." 'smoked since Taylor was under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio from 1934 to Hollywood record for a from pretty-boy roles as his face creased and his wavy dark hair thinned. TV Series From 1959 to 1962 he played a tough cop on the television series "The Detective." Since 1966 he had appeared on the "Death Valley Days" show. Taylor was born Aug. 6, 1911, in Filley, the son of a grain dealer who later became a doctor. He enjoyed recalling his youth there and in Beatrice, where theater marquees announced his first movies with his real name: "Starring Spangler Arlington Brugh." At Pomona College near Los Angeles, Taylor joined the drama club and a year after graduation signed an MGM'contract for $35 a wee'k.

Marries German Actress His marriage to Miss Stan- wyck ended in 1951, when she divorced him, charging mental cruelty. They had no children. Three years later Taylor married a German actress, Ursula Thiess, who was with him at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica when he died. They had a son, Terence, in 1955, and a daughter, Tessa, in 1959.

The funeral will be Wednesday at the Forest Lawn Church of the Recessional in nearby Glendale. Gov. Ronald Reagan, a friend whom Taylor replaced on "Death Valley Days," will deliver the eulogy. Seoul Reports Sinking Red Spy Boat SEOUL (AP) South Korean coastal defense forces have reported sinking a North Korean spy boat in a 20-minute gun battle 140 miles southeast of Seoul. The Defense Ministry said the rubber boat, capable of holding six persons, was discovered attempting to land agents and was sunk early Sunday off the easi coast city of Pukp'yong-ni.

Searchers recovered the body of a North Korean officer, a submachine gun and 4 pounds of TNT from the water, a spokes man said. A search for the Urge Unity For Safety Legislation WEST FRANKFORT, 111. AP) A call for unified support among coal miners for health and safety legislation was made Sunday by W.A. "Tony" Boyle, president of the United Mine Workers of America. Boyle drew applause from about 300 miners when he as- occupants contin were believed to serted that miners suffering from "black lung" should be given compensation.

"There'll be no compromise to your well being," Boyle said. He said legislation under consideration would require all coal mines to reduce dust content in the atmosphere. Boyle urged construction of underground safety chambers where men could take refuge in case 'of disaster. Boyle, facing an election in December, scoffed at mismanagement charges against himself and other union officials made by Ralph Nader. Ques- joat's other ued but all lave drowned.

The spokesman said the ene my boat was escorted by a larg er vessel which fired 82mm shells at the South Korean forces on shore, then spec away. Officials said one shel fired by the North Koreans hit a house, killing five sleeping members a family. Pu'kp'yong-ni is in the general area where 120 North Korean guerrillas landed last November. Of those, 107 were killed and seven others captured. Capital Quote By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS "At long last de-escalation has become a fact rather than a phrase.

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