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HENSON: Right. All that stuff. That was still in the case after case full of objects days, right?

MANN: Oh, yes. No, I think the exhibition in museums has just improved a thousand percent. They make it much more interesting to people who are interested in other fields.

HENSON: Yes, that they're not specialists in. Now when you went to New York City after that what were you doing up in New York? Were you working?

MANN: Oh, yes. I was looking for a job, something to do with publishing. My first job was working on a special case for a certified public account. This had nothing whatever to do with editorial work. He had a very famous bankruptcy case, and there was so much correspondence from all the stockholders that he wanted someone just to--he didn't want to send form letters to them, he wanted someone to write them nice letters and cheer them up or break the news to them they were not going to get their money back. So that was the first job I had in New York. He was very nice and very understanding, and anytime I wanted to go or had a letter of introduction to, oh, [[underlined]] Harper's [[/underlined]] or someplace like that, he'd say, "Oh, take the afternoon off." Because he knew I wasn't going to stay with him forever.

Then I got a job with Ewing Galloway, and that was a little more in my line. I was writing captions for photographs; he had a photographic news agency. That led to the [[underlined]] Woman's Home Companion [[/underlined]], which was exactly what I wanted. I was there for two or three years.