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Duquesne will eliminate men’s golf after the 2009-10 season. To Tom Farrell, Duquesne University is family. His father, James “Hooks” Farrell, was a standout basketball player for the Dukes in the late 1940s.

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Jack Kramer, a world-renowned tennis player in the 1940s and early ’50s and a well-known businessman and tennis promoter in Southern California for more 60 years, died late Saturday night at his home in Los Angeles. He was 88. The cause of death was a soft tissue cancer that was diagnosed in July. Kramer, the No. 1 player in the world for much of the late 1940s, won the Wimbledon men’s singles title in 1947 and the men’s U.S. Championships, the forerunner of the U.S. Open, in 1946 and ‘

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Way back in the late 1940s, the Wake Forest golf team lost out in its bid to qualify for a college tournament. Duke’s coach offered Wake the “honor” of caddying for the Blue Devils in the tournament. (Duke: always classy through the decades.) Wake’s coach was so incensed that he started building his own golf powerhouse, recruiting a golfing prodigy from up north — and also a kid named Arnold …

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Black man of Oakland was blocked in 1940s and ’50s from playing on pro golf tour but broke Bay Area course records and taught the game to so many.

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They grew up in a time of significant social and cultural change. They are often considered to be the wealthiest generation, beginning their lives during the post-war economic boom of the late 1940s and 50s. They are the Baby Boomers. So how can business owners encourage them to spend their wealth? Alternative advertising techniques work extremely well with this generation. Baby Boomers are often said to have an affinity for the unconventional. After all, this was the generation which thrived

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