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- ↑ "K.E. Stockton Dies; A Cable Executive," New York Times, May 12, 1950, p. 27.
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- ↑ Ellery W. Stone, an oral history conducted in 1974 by Frank Polkinghorn, IEEE History Center, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
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