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        "Wallace, Madge Gates, 1862-1952",
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        "Truman, Mary Jane, 1889-1978",
        "Wallace, Helen, 1896-1971",
        "Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972",
        "Bundschu, Charles C., 1890-1973",
        "Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948",
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