Ted Turner Cuts Patagonia Stay Short for Surgery in Buenos Aires

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Cable News Network founder Ted Turner was rushed to a hospital in Buenos Aires today from his holiday ranch in southern Argentina for appendicitis surgery.

Turner, 75, was admitted to a hospital in Buenos Aires, CNN said in a message on Twitter. Argentine television network TN broadcast images of Turner walking from a clinic to a car in the mountain resort town of San Carlos de Bariloche, 835 miles southwest of the capital, before boarding a private plane. Turner Enterprises chief communications officer Phillip Evans confirmed his hospitalization.