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660:Baby Taylor
640:Kirk Newell
605:Bedie Bidez
469:Rus Lindsay
175:Early years
701:Categories
620:Frank Hart
615:Red Harris
600:Ted Arnold
528:R. V. Kerr
461:Irby Curry
268:References
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