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With just over a minute left, Higgins removed goalie Dave Shea (31 saves) in favor of a sixth skater. At that Juncture, Young took a feed from Lane MacDonald on the left, skated the length of the ice and tossed a shot into the empty Princeton net to finish the scoring and seal the win for Harvard...
...first two sets, we spoon-feed them," Stan was explaining the other night at a place called O'Shea's, a vast waterfront establishment that seats 500 when they aren't dancing to Stan. "We mute the trumpets and the trombones, and we blow easy. After that, we let them have it." And so he did, with Sing, Sing, Sing, Sing...
They are booked solid through next June: nightclubs, country clubs, banquets, benefit afternoon performances in a local park -- name it, they play it. "I wanted the Glenn Miller sound," Stan was saying one recent Sunday night at O'Shea's, where he plays every Sunday night, "and it turned out it was perfect for southwest Florida, for the age group here. The sentiment. The nostalgia. We played the elegant Quail Creek Country Club in Naples last night. When we opened, the people jumped up, and they didn't stop dancing from 8 till midnight." That said, Stan slid into...
...floor, old and young rose to dance, some lacking a certain fluidity, but all quite game. The lights from O'Shea's played on the waterfront outside the dance hall, and off in the mangroves of Marco Island an insect combo embellished the Spiro sound with a contrapuntal hum. It was all bloody romantic, and when a paddle-wheeler, the latest O'Shea expansion, came to berth with 100 or so diners aboard, they simply fell to working off their meals aerobically: a waltz to warm up, a jitterbug for the cardiovascular good, a waltz to cool down. "I never...
...People call all week long," said Graham Hayward, the maitre d'. "They want to reserve a table down front. People make it a ritual every Sunday night." Hayward's boss, Dolores Shea, who with her husband Tom runs O'Shea's (the O got separated from the family two generations back), offered this blessing: "They've done very well. They don't draw teenagers, but they draw everybody else. We've had steel bands, Dixieland, everything, but the big band is neat, especially our big band. Now just listen to that." They were playing Stella by Starlight...