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Friends Say Mills Lane Improving

Sunday, 12-May-2002
Story from The Associated Press (via ClariNet)


RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Friends thought Mills Lane was getting better when he got feisty.

Now that the former boxing and television judge is using curse words, they're sure he's improving since suffering a stroke in March.

His wife, Kaye, said one doctor told him, "`Mills, you're doing very well on your French, but now you have to work on the rest of your speech.'"

Lane has been released from a rehabilitation hospital, and will undergo outpatient physical and speech therapy at the New York University Medical Center in New York City, where the Lanes have an apartment.

The March 31 stroke affected 64-year-old's speech and resulted in mild weakness to the right side of his body.

The former district attorney and county judge starred in a nationally syndicated TV show "Judge Mills Lane" for three years until it was canceled a year ago.

He also refereed the heavyweight bout in which he disqualified Mike Tyson for biting off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear.

http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/bl/Amills-lane.RnaF_CyC.html