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...needed a couple of breaks to topple [Harvard]," St. Lawrence coach Joe Marsh admitted after Friday night's shocker, the 12th-place Saints coming through after 60 minutes with a 4-3 win over the Crimson--No. 2 in the conference...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Roller Coasting | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...last matchup was one the Crimson might rather just forget. Harvard fell in a shocker, 4-3, in Providence, never leading in the contest...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: Brown at Bright: Old Rivals Reunite | 12/3/1994 | See Source »

...tenth-place finish by St. Lawrence last season was a shocker up in Canton, N.Y. The Saints are almost always one of the top teams in the league, but injuries and inexperience killed them last year...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: ECAC | 11/5/1994 | See Source »

...namemate from another era and forges a powerful link in baseball's memory chain. So this year let us induct Harvard Eddie Grant and Parisian Bob Caruthers, Goose Goslin and Goose Gossage, Rollie Fingers and Mordecai Peter Centennial (Three Finger) Brown. Not to forget those matching tabloid headlines, Urban Shocker and Country Slaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: Baseball: Willie, Mickey and...the Scooter? | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

...painter a worse embarrassment than Salvador Dali? Not even Andy Warhol. Long before his physical death in 1989, old Avida Dollars -- Andre Breton's anagram of his name -- had collapsed into wretched exhibitionism. Genius, Shocker, Lip-Topiarist: though he once turned down an American businessman's proposal to open a string of what would be called Dalicatessens, there was little else he refused to endorse, from chocolates to perfumes. He was surrounded by fakes and crooks and married to one of the greediest harpies in Europe: Gala, who made him the indentured servant of his lost talent even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Salvador Dali: Baby Dali | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

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