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Henson: No. [Laughter]

Mann: That was in September, and of course, the war was over in November, and military intelligence folded up. Military intelligence, by the way, had a small office somewhere on F Street. It was on the second floor, I think, over Jelleff's store. That was our military intelligence in World War I. We had no Pentagon, no CIA [Central Intelligence Agency].

Henson: Just the top of the building?

Mann: Yes. Of course, I think there may have been some other buildings, but no special installations for military intelligence. I had taken a [United States] Civil Service [Commission] exam back in Ann Arbor for editorial clerk, and I got a letter from Civil Service asking me if I would accept a position in the Bureau of Entomology, [United States] Department of Agriculture, and I had to look in the dictionary to see what entomology was! So I became the assistant editor of the bureau for four years, and that's how I got to the Bureau of Entomology.

Henson: Who was the editor at that time?

Mann: Rolla P. Currie.

Henson: What was your major in college?

Mann: English. I took journalism, history--liberal arts.