Antedating of "D.J."

Stephen Goranson goranson at DUKE.EDU
Tue Sep 4 12:01:01 UTC 2012


Right you are, Garson, That story (first published in 1940) is irrelevant for radio dejay.

As for
Wireless World. vol. 50 page 130 (so claimed at books.google.com)
 Incorporated Radio Society of Great Britain, Wireless Society of London - 1944 - Snippet view
Incorporated Radio Society of Great Britain, Wireless Society of London ... All components are m.dlly [easily?] obtainable from practically any radio deejay, Why wait until after the war * The - WIZARD FOUR " can be built at home without any | n ...

http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22radio+deejay%22&tbs=,cdr:1,cd_min:Jan+1_2+1943,cd_max:Dec+31_2+1945&num=10

Duke library has the volume before and the volume after but not that one (and vol. 50 is 1944), so not confirmed on paper.

SG



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Stephen Goranson wrote
> Then there are the (unconfirmed) GB snippets with multiple
> uses of "Dee-Jay" in a short story collection from 1944 (the
> date, at least, checks out), Pedlar's Pack: stories [etc.]
> [Dublin] by Francis MacManus (1909-1965), who, at least,
> was involved in radio. (The words radio, record, station and
> gramophone also appear--whether in the same story, I know not.)

"Pedlar's Pack" contains a short story called "The Winking Dee-Jay."

The story "The Winking Dee-Jay" is in JSTOR. Here is the data:

The Winking Dee-Jay by Francis MacManus
The Irish Monthly
Vol. 68, No. 803 (May, 1940), pp. 267-274
Published by: Irish Jesuit Province
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20514707

The flavor of JSTOR I have does not allow me to see this full story,
but I can see the front page and I think that Dee-Jay referred to
"District Justice Skelly." So I think this cite may not refer to a
radio dee-jay.

Garson


> http://books.google.com/books?id=KeUvAQAAIAAJ&q=%22dee+jay%22&dq=%22dee+jay%22&source=bl&ots=9JzbJFk02a&sig=oCrOWHf1Ob8gqaGcrpWwy8tFAdc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Y9pFUIv0K4jS9ASgv4GoBg&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAw
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