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“Marilyn Monroe’s Sudden Death.” Village Voice, 9 August, 4, 60. Consists of Mailer’s press release, distributed at an 18 July press conference, with a brief introductory statement by him questioning why Ron Rosenbaum did not make much of the release in his 2 August Village Voice article, “Mailer on Monroe: Through a Gloss, Darkly.” Rpt: With additional prefatory and concluding comments as “The Murder File” in the softcover edition of Marilyn: A Biography (75.3); and without any contextual comments in 75.1. See other 1973 entries.