Word: gelb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...responsible was Metropolitan Editor Arthur Gelb, who spotted an offbeat story in the monthly magazine of Manhattan's Museum of Natural History; the article concluded that wolves howled not to frighten people but to communicate with other wolves. Gelb assigned Schonberg to write a professional critique of the calls of the wild. After listening to nearly an hour's worth of howling, Schonberg issued his straight-faced findings, complete with notational diagram...
Story finished, Schonberg treated startled staffers in the Times city room to a few tenor and bass wolf howls of his own. Not bad,Gelb noted...