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- ↑ Ann Griffith, "The Magazines Women Read" The American Mercury (March 1949), anthologized in Nancy A. Walker, ed., Women's Magazines, 1940-1960: Gender Roles and the Popular Press (Spring 2016): 234-241. ISBN 9781137050687
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- ↑ Charles R. Acland, Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence (Duke University Press 2012): 159. ISBN 9780822349198
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