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- ↑ "Miss America History 1930's - Decade in Review". Archived from the original on 2006-09-23. Retrieved 2006-12-23.
- ↑ "Miss America : 1932". Archived from the original on 2006-09-23. Retrieved 2014-09-12.
- ↑ "Chapman Chatter" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-01-04.
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