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"ref": "1950 December, Lee Hoffman, “Chaos”, in Quandry, number 5, archived from the original on 2015-10-09, page 3",
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"ref": "1952 February, Fred J. Robinson, “Arose By Any Other Name”, in Straight Up, volume 1, number 1, page 1",
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"ref": "1976 November, Lee Hoffman, “Editorial”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 6, page 4",
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}
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