Antedating of "Gin Rummy" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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_Cleveland [OH] Plain Dealer_ 26 Dec 1937, p 5-B col 1
"Dishes washed and stowed on the shelf by the stove, we gathered about
the table and played "gin" rummy. It's a form of rummy."

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> gin rummy (OED 1941)
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> 1940 _Variety_ 20 Aug.  Murray Feil has two week vacation so is making
> scie= ntific study of gin-rummy at Hillcrest.
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> Fred Shapiro
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