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Wayne Gretzky scored three goals in the third period last night to shatter Phil Esposito's league mark of 76 goals in a season and help the Edmonton Oilers to a 6-3 victory over the Buffalo Sabres. The goals were Gretzky's 77th, 78th, and 79th. "I'm glad I got it: it's a tremendous feeling," Gretzky said after the game...
...traditions of their anachronistic business, Whitey Herzog, general manager and manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, and Bob Kennedy, general manager of the Chicago Cubs, sat down at a table in the lobby of a Dallas hotel and, while hundreds looked on, made their deal. Baseball's 79th winter meeting-an annual extravaganza that is part Oldtimers' Day, part industry trade fair and part human flesh market-was under...
...Maury ("Steam Train") Graham convinced the 79th Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa, that he needed to retain his title as King of the Hobos in order to continue visiting prisoners around the nation...
...medical equipment, maintains an office in midtown Manhattan that he has not visited for a year; he does all his work in the fo'c'sle of his 43-ft. cabin cruiser, which is berthed in a boat basin on the Hudson River at Manhattan's 79th Street. He keeps in touch with secretary and clients by onboard phone. Says he: "My therapy is tinkering. On a boat there's always something to do." There's also always something to do for his son Ari, 13. Says Abramson: "Living here for kids is a real...
...fact, most live-aboards are solid middle class, with a high proportion of divorced people (hence the number of boats with names like Second Life and New Beginning). At New York's 79th Street boat basin, skippers of the 80-strong year-round fleet include a drug-company officer, a masseuse, the owner of a thriving fashion firm, an inventor, a rabbi, an actress, a TV producer, advertising and insurance executives, a stock analyst, a nurse and a porno movie queen. Most started off by renting a boat for summer weekends. Then they became addicted, but kept an apartment...