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I 8A Star-Gazette Sunday Telegram, July 1, 1984- away, the observer said. There was no immediate indica Playwright Lillian Hellman dies Kilauea eruption in 21st phase VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) Kl- said, lauea Volcano erupted Saturday in The fountains, erupting over a lava fountains visible 65 200-foot spatter cone, could be miles away, an official observer seen from Hilo, about 65 miles tion of the direction of the lava flow. The outburst is the 2ls phase of the eruption which began Jan. 3, 1983. I Jackson's Victory Concert Tour Ticket Contest of the four or five most important playwrights we've had In this time." Actress Maureen Stapleton, a 30-year friend who appeared in Miss HeUman's 1960 play "Toys in the Attic," remembered her as "a dazzling mind and wit, and great fun to be with." "The thing that made it exciting to be around her was that she was a dramatist in every sentence of her spoken life," Hersey said.

"Everything she experienced she spoke about as if it were the scene in a play. She became the characters and with an extraordinary vividness brought everything right in front of your eyes." Miss Hellman's career lasted five decades, from her first success as a playwright with "The Children's Hour" in 1934-to her eventual dissatisfaction with the commercial theater and her resurgence with books based on reminiscences of her life. She had a long and stormy relationship with Dashiell Ham-mett, the private detective-turned-author who wrote such detective classics as "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man." VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (AP) Playwright Lillian Hellman, a woman with "a dazzling mind" whose "The Little Foxes" became a classic portrayal of a wealthy and rapacious Southern family, died Saturday at the age of 79. Miss Hellman, whose work also was the basis for the movie "Ju-lia," died of cardiac arrest at Martha's Vineyard Hospital, near her summer home on Vineyard Haven Harbor, said nursing supervisor Katie DeHertogh.

She had been taken to the hospital Friday night. Peter Feibleman, an author and close friend, said in Los Angeles that Miss Hellman had been seriously ill for about IVi years and was in "pretty severe discomfort." "It's the best thing that could have happened to her and the worst thing that could have happened to those of us who love her," said Feibleman, a friend for 40 years and "the closest to family that she had." Novelist and journalist John Hersey, another close friend and a neighbor of Miss Hellman on the JflL ft P- I fx Lillian Hellman resort island of Martha's Vineyard, said she fought her infirmity as she fought for her ideals "every inch of the way." "Her fight all through her life was to have existence better than it could be for most human beings. So it was difficult going but always exhilarating to be with her," Hersey was, I think, one Win 2 tickets plus transportation to see the Jacksons in concert! Yes! You can win a FREE TRIP to Dallas plus TWO TICKETS to see the Jacksons LIVE IN CONCERT during the weekend of July 13-15. Full details and entry blank are in the Friday, June 29 edition of USA TODAY. Canadian cruise ship runs aground Buy your copy of USA TODAY in vending machines and newsstands all over the Twin Tiers.

Seattle, before its engines failed. "There was a tremendous vibration it felt like someone put on the brakes," said passenger Jan Hoffman of Torrance, Calif. "This is my first and last sea voyage." Eight people jumped overboard as the ship was docking, but "rescue boats were on hand to pick those people out of the water," Broadbent said. Most of the 787 passengers and crew walked off the ship to the dock, but the Campbell River Fire Department had to assist some elderly people, said Lt. Robert Kaiser.

CAMPBELL RIVER, British Columbia (AP) A 502-foot cruise ship with 787 people aboard ran aground Saturday off Vancouver Island. The ship limped to port, then settled to the bottom and collapsed part of a pier, authorities said. Eighty of the M.V. Sundancer's passengers were treated at hospitals, and four were admitted, spokesmen said. The Sundancer, owned by Sundance Cruises of Seattle, ran aground north of here in Discovery Passage, said Canadian Coast Guard Capt.