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- ↑ 'This Is a Soul: This Mission of Rick Hodes' by Marilyn Berger Saving Lives One at a Time Good Morning America Books, April 3, 2010
- ↑ Marilyn Berger, a Reporter, Wed to Don Hewitt of CBS April 22nd, 1979 (abstract)