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- ↑ Playbill Biography Archived June 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Erstein, Hap (February 4, 2013). "The busy snowbird". The Palm Beach Post. Florida, West Palm Beach. p. E 1. Retrieved November 7, 2020– via Newspapers.com.
