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7/&E' St/M ; jCtoo. j i OPINION B-4,5 ; ANN&ABBY B-6 TELEVISION B-6 COMICS B-7 I AROUND THE WORLD NATION z'z.-&2#rrM Ambrose hospitali2ed with fall injuries HELENA, Mont. ? Former University of New Orleans historian Stephen Ambrose, who wrote a bestseller about the Lewis and Clark expedition and j moved here after retracing the explorers? route, was in serious I condition at a Wisconsin hospital , Tuesday. Ambrose, 62, was I admitted to Meriter Park Hospital in Madison, Wis., on Sunday. | There were conflicting reports about the reason. A person at Ambrose?s Helena office, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the historian had collapsed. Barbara Wolff, a spokeswoman for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Ambrose fell and struck his head. Ambrose, retired from the University of New Orleans faculty, is a leading scholar of military and diplomatic history. He is a founding director of the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans, and founder of the National D-Day Museum, also in New Orleans. He also has a home in Bay St. Louis.
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