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Famous hustlers-Omaha Fats, Weenie Beanie, Boston Shorty, Wimpy Lassiter, Cuban Joe, Junior Golf-shoot it out in three different tournaments. The winner of each division plays in a three-way round-robin on the last day for the title of World's Greatest All-Around pool player.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hustlers Come to Johnson City | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

The straight pool tournament was won by Joe Russo of Trenton, New Jersey, and the nine-ball tournament went to Luther "Wimpy" Lassiter of Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hustlers Come to Johnson City | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

God Bless. No one has yet taken any action on the Duncan report. The only official response came from Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Michael Stewart, who spoke in the best tradition of diplomatic vagueness about it before the House of Commons. The report, he said, was "far-ranging" and drew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Goodbye to All That | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

The French have nothing against grandeur, but it demands an austerity that has nothing to do with their current mood. Contemporary France is moving rapidly, almost visibly, into the age of mass-consumer, pop-culture society, and the last thing it wants is austerity. The evidence of that attitude is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: FRANCE ENTERS A NEW ERA | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

With a contract from the British-owned Wimpy chain, he opened his first four hamburger havens in Paris in 1961 and proceeded to lose money for two years. But gradually the idea of "a complete meal on a round bun" caught on. Now Borel serves 60,000 meals a day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Snack v. La Grande Cuisine | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

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