Robert Warner, a pediatrician who helped develop a test credited with saving thousands of children from mental retardation, died Sunday at a hospital. Survivors include his wife, four children, one sister, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Lampe led the Hearst National Better Roads for America campaign, which culminated in legislation to develop the interstate highway system. He later was editor of Hearst newspapers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh and elsewhere before completing his journalism career as director of special editorial projects for Hearst Newspapers. That newspaper merged with The Detroit News in 1960. He began his career at newspapers in Pittsburgh before moving to the Detroit Times in 1937 as assistant managing editor. As director of athletics and information when the university was housed in several borrowed offices, Lampe named the football team the Hurricanes and wrote the school’s first fight song. He was in public relations in 1926 when he took a hand in the University of Miami’s founding. Lampe, a former editor at several leading newspapers, promoter of the interstate highway system and co-founder of the University of Miami, died Monday of cancer at his home. The elder Allen was Atlanta mayor from 1962 to 1970, leading the city through integration with little of the unrest that plagued other cities. He was 53 and authorities said he apparently committed suicide.Īllen had been president of Ivan Allen Co., the family’s office supply firm, since 1972.Īllen was a former president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and helped in the $7 million fund-raising effort that let the Atlanta Organizing Committee make its successful bid for the 1996 Olympics.įormer President Carter, a close friend who often hunted and fished with Allen, said Allen’s death ″leaves a void that will be felt by this city and the entire region.″ (AP) _ Ivan Allen III, a prominent Atlanta businessman and son of former Atlanta mayor Ivan Allen Jr., was found dead Sunday at his family’s farm.