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Originally Posted by bgadow
I have a big stack of "S9" magazines that I've saved just for Kneitel's writing. Any kin to "Ask Joe Gutts?"
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No, two different guys.
Interesting that Herb Freedman is still known and remembered; his day job was in Brooklyn as chief engineer of WNYE-FM, the noncommercial station of the New York Department of Education. It was little known that he also ran the 'test lab' we used for test reports at Davis Publications in NYC. There were only about three others: the one guy in Long Island that
Audio magazine used, CBS Labs in Connecticut used by
High Fidelity magazine (in the seventies), and the ever popular Ziff-Davis guys Julian Hersh and Harry Houck (not sure about Houck's first name; but that's how I recall it). Anyway these guys (Hersh was the principal player) once ran a 'golden ears' article to establish credibility since they were getting old... and hearing goes.
Letters to the Editor (or Q&A) 'bylines' were not necessarily the writer's real name and in fact were usually not. At one time I was writing CB columns in two different magazines under the byline Kathy Martin and at the same time Herb Freedman wrote a monthly article in a third magazine under the same Kathy Martin byline! I later switched one byline to Chuck Baker (CB) and the other, in a camping magazine, to a phonetic version (Dexnis) of my real name, Deksnis.
"Joe Gutts" is an example of a prolific writer who could make you buy a magazine month after month. I didn't know the guy except to see him, and I can't recall his real name; he had been the Editor of
Science and Mechanics before Tony Hogg took over the reigns, and he was writing that great column under the 'Gutts' pseudonym for Tony, who incidentally later went back to a second stint as Editor of
Road & Track.
Tony story; maybe a bit further off topic: Tony came running into my office one day in the mid '70s and said did I know Barney's (a still famous clothier in NYC) had a sale on suits... and they were Kilgour, French, and Stanbury! Think of Tony all bubbly over delivering his great news. Think of Tony delivering his wonderful news with his heavy English accent. My actual response: Who the f**k is kilgour french and stanberry?!?
Well, what the hey, Englishman Tony knew the Kilgour, French, and Stanbury brand and shop in London and so convinced me to get one (they were only $60; he got three). Postlude: The suit was good quality; it's a loose fit in the English fashion; and it still hangs in my closet after all these years; I never wear it anymore.
Tony had been a race car driver in England before crossing the pond and taking up editorial duties over here... hence his editorial 'fit' with
Road & Track and
Science and Mechanics. One other thing. Joe Gutts got the same story from Tony; so, three months later, right there in his column, Gutts mocked Tony big-time over those 'baggy' English Kilgour, French, and Stanbury suits he always wore.
Also (back on topic), the CT-100 uses UHF strips; sixteen slots in the turret; fill them up any UHF/VHF way you want.
Pete