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THE bUS 1 UN bU IN DA ULUbC tJUlNt, 10, tijttb Dorchester fire leaves 10 persons homeless OTHIEt OBITUARIES I Page 53 IDfOIAClDES Adventurer Marlin Perkins, 81, Broadway lyricist hosted 'Wild Kingdom' TV show cious and is under investigation by the Boston Fire Department's arson squad, the spokesman said. According to Lionel Perrington. a next-door neighbor, the tenants, including three children, were evacuated without injury. They found temporary shelter with friends and relatives, according to Edward Terrell, a disaster duty worker for the American Red Cross. vl I i rs Ten persons were left temporarily homeless after a fire damaged a three-family home in Dorchester yesterday morning, according to the Boston Fire Department.

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Kcm.NH. Colony MiU Marketplace S-A tMri tsUV United Press International ST. LOUIS Marlin Perkins, whose scholarly appearance and reedy Midwestern voice are known to millions of people around the world through his landmark television program "Wild Kingdom." died yesterday. He was 81. Mr.

Perkins, who suffered from lymph system cancer for two years, died at 5 p.m. EDT yesterday, a family spokesman said. Mr. Perkins was an explorer, adventurer, conservationist and world famous zoo director. Since the 1950s, he was a pioneer in filming wild animals in their natural surroundings.

Perkins dodged death in the past. He almost died on New Year's Eve 1928 when he was bitten by a Gabon viper at the St. Louis Zoo. He was laid up for three weeks in Chicago in 1950 from a rattlesnake bite. NBC began broadcasting "Wild Kingdom" in 1963 and kept it on the air for nine years.

Mutual of Omaha, the insurance company that had been its sponsor from the beginning, then syndicated it through its own network. At the height of its popularity, the show, winner of four Emmy Awards, was seen on 200 stations in North America and in more than 40 nations. Mr. Perkins remained the show's host until last year when he had to curtail his activities because of his fight against lymph cancer that included chemical and radiation therapy. But earlier this year, Mr.

Perkins began hosting "Nature News-break," a 60-second program sponsored by Mutual of Omaha and the National Wildlife Federation. Mr. Perkins cut his teeth in the animal show business with "Zoo-parade," a program he did for 12 years for Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo and NBC. It was an immediate hit when It went on the air in 1945, and it put Mr. Perkins, a dropout from the zoology program at the University of Missouri, on the road to International fame.

"There's lots of room for animal shows." he said in a March 1985 interview. "But we were the first one and that went on the air the minute the cable went into service between Chicago and New York." "Zooparade" a name suggested by Mr. Perkins was the successor to "A Visit to the Lincoln Park Zoo" which debuted when there were only 300 television sets In Chicago. B. BS GALLON ALL GLASS Aquarium WITH FULL FLUORESCENT VERSA HOOD $129" Rrgvahirlf purchased separately EE A SEMI-ANNUAL EVENT winner of Oscars Associated Press NEW YORK Alan Jay Lerner, the Oscar- and Tony-winning composer, playwright and lyricist who penned such Broadway successes as "Camelot." "Briga-doon," "My Fair Lady" and "Gigi." died yesterday of lung cancer.

He was 67. Mr. Lerner died at 10:15 a.m. at Sloan-Ketterlng Memorial Cancer Center, said a hospital spokeswoman, Sally Benjamin Young. He had been 111 for about five months and hospitalized for the last two, said Sydney Gruson, a longtime friend and vice chairman of The New York Times.

Mr. Lerner wrote the book and lyrics for the smash Broadway hits "Brigadoon" in 1947; "My Fair Lady" in 1956; "Camelot" in 1960; "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" in 1965; and "Gigi" in 1973. "Gigi" won him a Tony Award. Mr. Lerner also captured a Tony in 1956 for "My Fair Lady," one of several award-winning works he cowrote with composer Frederick Loewe.

His story and screenplay for "An American in Paris" won an Academy Award in 1951, which was followed by two more Oscars in 1958 for the best screenplay and song for the film version of "Gigi." In 1965. he won a Grammy Award for "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever." Mr. Lerner was best known for his collaboration with Loewe, which began In 1942. Their first success came five years later with the Scottish fantasy "Brigadoon," featuring the song "Almost Like Being in Love." Their work together, with Mr. Lerner providing book and lyrics and Loewe the music, continued through "My Fair Lady," "Paint Your Wagon." "Camelot" and "Gigi." Mr.

Lerner also collaborated with other theater greats, Including Kurt Weill, Burton Lane and Leonard Bernstein. Rex Harrison, who played Professor Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady," recalled last year how easily Mr. Lerner and Loewe worked Great-grandson of ex-president treated and released from Fair-view Hospital in Great Barring-ton, police said. Police said Green apparently was wearing a seat belt at the time, while Mr. Roosevelt was not.

Mr. Roosevelt was born In New York City, and was the son of J. Willard and Carol (Russell) Roose-, velt of New York and Sandisfield. He worked as a manager of his father's tree farm here. Private services will be held in Oyster Bay, N.Y.

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They produced a song embracing just those four or five notes and It was called 'I've Grown Accustomed to Your he recalled. Mr. Lerner and Loewe were named to the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 1971. The pair were honored for their lifelong contributions to American culture at a 1985 celebration at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Mr.

Lerner was also honored last year by the National Academy of Popular Music with its "Johnny Mercer Award" for his lyric writing. His first stage production, mounted in Detroit in 1942, was "The Life of the Party," for which he wrote the book and lyrics. i His last Broadway show', "'Dance a Little Closer" in 1983; got poor reviews and closed after one night on Broadway. But Frank Rich, theater critic for The New York Times, observed that despite the play's problems, Mr. Lerner's book and lyrics showed why "he Is one of our musical ther ater's top professionals." Mr.

Lerner was back in the news earlier this year when the federal government sued him for for $1.4 million in back taxes and penalties, placing a lien on his songwriting royalties. At Mr. Lerner's bedside when he died were his wife, the English musical comedy actress Liz Robi-ertson, his daughters. Jennifer and Liza, and his son, Michael. Gruson said.

A third daughter, Susan, was in Los Angeles, according to Gruson. Mr. Lerner was born in New York City on Aug. 31, 1918, thie son of Joseph Lerner and the former Edith Adelson. He was edu--cated at Bedales, in England, and at Choate and Harvard Universi ty- mm tarn M.

tip latsway Old t0ding Arranged nms and Quality. 1986 Siesta Jli. 1 7VM 16 Newbury Street, Boston 536-6225 The Mall at Chestnut Hill 244-6383 MARLIN PERKINS "That was live television, but the concept of 'Wild Kingdom' developed from said Mr. Perkins, who was among the first to bring zoo animals into a studio for programs. Mr.

Perkins and his crew journeyed to Africa In 1955 for their first "Zooparade" shows done on location. Mr, Perkins realized early on that videotape was the coming thing in television and that it would give him the flexibility and creativity he wanted in his shows. "We got the concept to go on location anywhere in the world with any kind of animal," he said of the later programs for "Zooparade." Mr. Perkins returned to the St. Louis Zoo in 1962, succeeding Vierheller.

His agreement with zoo officials allowed him to divide his time between his duties In St. Louis and "Wild Kingdom." He was zoo director emeritus after 1970. Perkins Is survived by his wife, Carol; a daughter, Suzanne Perkins of Berkeley, two stepdaughters, Alice Gortra of Lake Forest, and Marguerite Sorum of Washington. D.C.; a stepson, Fred Cosworth of St. Louis; and eight grandchildren.

Private memorial services were scheduled Thursday at the Church of St. Michael and St. George In Clayton. David Roosevelt, 21 Associated Press SANDISFIELD A great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt was killed Thursday in a one-vehicle accident in this western Massachusetts town. David R.

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