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"I am inviting you to a duck dinner," a gluttonous comic-strip character named J. Wellington Wimpy used to say. "You bring the duck."
Last week the St. Louis Post-Dispatch uncovered a Wimpy-like scheme thought up by tough, well-tailored Harold Gibbons, boss of Teamster Local 688 (9,000 members) and idea man for Teamster Czar Jimmy Hoffa. A free spender who ran through $63,000 in hotel tabs and other expenses...
The Lincoln Mohawks scored five quick goals in the second period at Watson last night and went on to rout the junior varsity hockey team, 8 to 3. Two of the Lincoln tallies were by Wimpy Burnett, a member of the 1956 U.S. Olympic team.
He may be a little rougher and faster now, but the same poise and strength and balance were undeniably there. Two of his scoring plays were typical. Late in the first period against B.C., he picked the puck up near the boards just inside the Eagle blueline, bulled and faked...
Boston College's "Wimpy" Burtnett scored twice in the last ten minutes to pace his team to a 4 to 2 victory over a stubborn Dartmouth hockey team last night. Bob Babine scored the Eagles' other tallies and the Indians tallies were registered by Captain Bruce Haertle and John Titus...