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East Orange, N.J., June 24- Dr. William Lowell, designer of the Reddy Golf Tee, which came into universal use in the sport, died yesterday at Orange
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Maplewood, N.J., dentist, made the late-in-life discovery that golf possessed certain therapeutic advantages. ...
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