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Elizabeth Taylor, battling her second serious bout with pneumonia in 30 years, was improving today at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica but breathing with the help of a ventilator after


surgery to determine the cause of her illness. “The doctors said this morning they are more optimistic about her. We are all very happy about that,” said Lisa Del Favaro of Chen Sam &


Associates public relations in New York. Del Favaro’s reports have been upbeat throughout Taylor’s three weeks of hospitalization, however. The 58-year-old Oscar-winning actress’ condition


has deteriorated markedly since what was initially described as a sinus infection. MORE TO READ