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HENSON: What were you doing there?

MANN: I was junior editor on what they call the back of the book. I had nothing to do with fashion or fiction, but food, and budgets, and bringing up children, which of course I knew a great deal about, and etiquette, all the different departments.

HENSON: Where were you living in New York? Did you live in the city?

MANN: Oh, yes. First I was in a boarding house; I got breakfast and dinner there, and had a room, on West Eighty-Sixth Street. Then I moved down to the [Greenwich] Village and I moved I think every year. I know I was on Waverly Place, and Ninth Street, and the last year or two on Manilla Lane which I just loved. I thought it was very picturesque. I was living there when Bill began coming to see me in New York, and he said, "Has your mother seen where you are living?" [Laughter] "What's the matter with it?"

HENSON: "It's so nice." [Laughter]

MANN: It was very picturesque. It came down through all these Italian pushcarts, you know, loaded with beautiful fruits and vegetables. Then you went through an iron gateway--oh, an archway--and across a paved patio, and the apartment house was built around the patio, and it was very romantic. I had what they called a studio apartment which is called an efficiency today. It was one room with no real kitchen, just a little sort of small room where I had a zinc topped table