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HENSON: Right, that kind of course. Did you have any really special interests in college you were involved in?

MANN: Oh, I was a reporter on the [[underlined]] Michigan Daily [[/underlined]], I was editor of the literary magazine, the [[underlined]] Inlander [[/underlined]], and I wrote for the [[underlined]] Inlander. [[/underlined]] That was my special interest. Of course I had to do other things, too.

HENSON: Right. . .[laughter]. . .but that was your area. What were you doing at the Bureau of Entomology, what kind of editing?

MANN: Well, there are farmers' bulletins and then there are more scientific publications. Anything that the Bureau of Entomology published went through our office, and it was just Mr. Currie, and me, and one secretary. It was a small office in a small building that doesn't exist anymore.

My college course in Dante had been of little use to me in my work in Military Intelligence. My courses in astronomy and geology were of no use at all in Entomology. I remember one noon hour when I was alone in the office, and a young man came in asking if we had a pamphlet on [[underlined]] Cimex lectularius. [[/underlined]] "Do you know the common name?" I asked. The young man turned bright pink. "Bedbug," he said.

HENSON: Where was your office?

MANN: This was before the new agriculture building was put up. There was an old, red brick agriculture building--good sized, of