Antedating of "Ditz"

[Mullins, Bill]

> >
> >ditz (OED 1984)
> >
> >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."
> >
> >Fred Shapiro
> >
> >
> >
> >
> And further:
>
> 1978 Larry Kramer _Faggots_ (1986) 152: He hopes that ditz
> has seen it all.
>
> JG
>

And further still:
"Tempo People" Aaron Gold _Chicago Tribune_; Nov 17, 1976; pg. A2 col 1.
"She's no longer the erratic "ditz" she used to be, and her career is
blossoming, too."