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...death row despite the Supreme Court's edict against capital punishment, Speck has been nicknamed "the Birdman" by his fellow prisoners-a reference to the 1962 Burt Lancaster movie, Birdman of Alcatraz. "I haven't raised any fuss about the birds," said Stateville Assistant Warden George Stampar. "Two sparrows flew into his cell and he's attached to them. I understand he even shampoos them...
Died. Andrija Stampar, M.D., 69, president of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, who helped set up the U.N.'s World Health Organization, served as chairman (1948) of the first World Health Assembly, ran it with what one delegate called a "unanimity complex," bringing all considerations to the personal level with such stock remarks as "If you have confidence in your chairman you will adopt this item" and "I would be the most unhappy man in the world if the assembly rejected this proposal"; after long illness; in Zagreb, Yugoslavia...
Much Hope. Nearly all the assembly's decisions were unanimous. Chairman and newly elected president was Yugoslavia's esteemed, bull-necked Andrija Stampar, rector of the University of Zagreb. He had, said one delegate, a "unanimity complex." He would make assembly procedure a personal issue: "If you have confidence in your chairman you will adopt this item"; or "I would be the most unhappy man in the world if the assembly rejected this proposal." WHO, Dr. Stampar thinks, should not set out to be a super health department for the world, but rather a clearinghouse for vital information...
...Tuesday, February 15, Andrija Stampar will lecture on "Observations of a Rural Healthworker," at the Harvard Medical School. This will be the annual Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine...
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