Wayne Gretzky played one season in the WHA for the Indianapolis Racers (eight games) and the Edmonton Oilers (72 games) before the Oilers joined the National Hockey League for the 1979â80 season.
Gerald L Hassell has been CEO of Bank of New York (BK) for one year. Mr. Hassell has been with the company for 18 years. The 60 year old executive ranks 9 within Banking.
Gunsmoke's Dennis Weaver dies at age 81. Dennis Weaver, best known for his role as Chester on the long-running TV western Gunsmoke, succumbed Friday to cancer at his ranch in Colorado. He was 81. Weaver was born in 1924, in Joplin, Missouri. He married his high school sweetheart, Gerry Stowell, in 1945.