The Greek And Gretzky

December, 1988

I got a call from the Greek the other night. I hadn't heard from him for a couple of years--since he'd gotten married, as a matter of fact."Ace," he said, "we gotta talk. I mean really talk. I'm in trouble. Can you meet me at the restaurant tonight?""No problem," I said. The Greek's family, immigrants from Corfu, own a restaurant on Chicago's Halsted Street.The Greek is slightly over 30 and slightly overweight. Today, he works as an executive for one of the biggest...