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ten dollars a week. I was offered twenty-five dollars a week. It's a little difficult to live in New York on twenty-five dollars a week.

HENSON: Even back then it would still be difficult, yes.

MANN: when I left, after two years at the [[underlined]] Woman's Home Companion [[/underlined]], I was getting all of forty-five dollars a week, and I lived very well--got to the theatre, bought my trousseau at Bergdoff Goodman's. [Laughter]

HENSON: My goodness.

MANN: Yes, there was always money.

HENSON: Yes, it depends on what you allot to it.

MANN: Prices were different. That was, you see, more than fifty years ago.

HENSON: Right. Why had you left Bureau of Entomology?

MANN: Why did I leave it?

HENSON: Yes.

MANN: I was not an entomologist, and eventually it seemed rather dull to me. I wanted something more exciting than bugs. [Laughter]

HENSON: Little did you know!