Antedating of "Ditz"

[Jonathon Green]

Fred Shapiro wrote:

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>ditz (OED 1984)
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>1982 _People_ 12 July [article beginning on page 55] (Nexis)  Finally she
>[Dyan Cannon] graduated to the Type A movie part she has been stuck with
>ever since.  "The unhappy wife," she explains.  "You know: the 'neurotic
>ditz.'  I played it well once, and they never forgot it."
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And further:

1978 Larry Kramer _Faggots_ (1986) 152: He hopes that ditz has seen it all.

JG