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Alison Alexander, Louise M Benjamin, Keisha Hoerrner, Darrell Roe.  "We'll Be Back in a Moment": A Content Analysis of Advertisements in Children's Television in the 1950s,"  A Journal of Advertising. Fall 1998.Vol.27, Issue 3

James L. Baughman. "Minow's Viewers: Understanding the Response to the "Vast Wasteland" Address," Federal Communications Law Journal, May 2003 v55 i3

Marsha F. Cassidy, "Sob Stories, Merriment, and Surprises: The 1950s Audience Participation Show on Network Television and Women's Daytime Reception." Velvet Light Trap (Fall 1998): 48

Marsha F. Cassidy.  "Visible Storytellers: Women Narrators on 1950s Daytime Television." Style 35.2 (Summer 2001)

Marsha Francis Cassidy.  "Innovating Women's Television in Local and National Networks: Ruth Lyons and Arlene Francis"  Camera Obscura - 51 (Volume 17, Number 3), 2002, pp. 31-69

Newton N. Minow.  "Television and the Public Interest," (Speech Before the National Association of Broadcasters, May 9, 1961). Federal Communications Law Journal, May 2003 v55 i3

James R. Walker  and Robert V. Bellamy Jr. "Baseball on Television: The Formative Years, 1939-51." Nine 11.2, 2003
 

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