Antedating of "Gizmo"

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Evidently lifted from the Nov., 1942, issue of the USMC magazine _The
> Leatherneck_, as in HDAS.
>
> Goldsboro is roughly sixty miles from Camp Lejeune. It is likely that the
> magazine had just become available.

Evidently and likely. If the USMC rag was a monthly, then the November
number would have hit the stands O/A 1 Oct 1942. A bi-monthly would
have appeared O/A 1 Sep 1942.

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-Wilson
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