Antedating of "D.J."

Tue Sep 4 13:01:57 UTC 2012

Stephen: It is a tricky puzzle. There is an advertisement for a
company called SEXTON'S that may have the following text:

Wireless world, Volume 50, 1944

http://books.google.com/books?id=KUM_AQAAIAAJ&q=%22SEXTON%27S%22#search_anchor

[Begin extracted text]
All components are readily obtainable from practically any radio
dealer. Why wait until after the war 7 The "WIZARD FOUR" can be built
at home without any previous knowledge of radio construction. Explicit
Instructions are given,
[End extracted text]

If you follow the link above and look at the second snippet it seems
to show the phrase "radio dealer" (cut in half) instead of "radio
deejay". It is conceivable that the OCR is misreading "dealer" as
"deejay". Alternatively, there is more than one version of the
advertisement. One or more of the ads may say "deejay" instead of
"dealer".  But it seems a bit awkward.

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
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> 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 ...
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> 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
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> Duke library has the volume before and the volume after but not that one (and vol. 50 is 1944), so not confirmed on paper.
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> 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
>>
>> http://books.google.com/books?ei=etZFUMHqLIis8ATrj4GoAg&id=KeUvAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22dee+jay%22&q=station#search_anchor
>>
>> Stephen Goranson
>> www.duke.edu/~goranson
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