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- ↑ "THE LORRAE DESMOND SHOW : [TELEVISION SERIES]". National Film and Sound Archive . Retrieved 1 March 2013.
- ↑ Musgrove, Nan (8 February 1961). "New setting for modern society". The Australian Women's Weekly . Vol. 28, no. 3. Australia. p. 50. Retrieved 1 March 2017– via National Library of Australia.
