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talking and swapping stories about travel, and time would go on, time would go on--I'd probably have two lamb chops in the frig for dinner. So he'd make signals to me across the room, could I feed them, and I'd shake my head, so then he'd send over to a Chinese restaurant, have food brought in, and that was fine, all I had to do was make the tea, and set the table and wash the dishes afterwards. I always enjoyed the Chinese dinners. I still like Chinese food very much.

HENSON: Did you ever fake out that you didn't have food in the frig for a Chinese dinner? [Laughter]

MANN: I probably did. I remember one time shortly after we were married, about 1928-29, there was a meeting in Washington of the International Entomological Congress, I think that's what it was called. Anyway, there were people here from all over Europe, and Bill brought a lot of them home for lunch one day. This was before we had proper furniture or anything. He didn't give me any warning, just called up about eleven o'clock and said he was bringing home a Swiss, and a Swede, and I forget who all for lunch. I think I had already started to make a chocolate cake, but I opened a couple of cans of salmon, made some salmon salad, and gave them salmon salad and chocolate cake. A long time afterwards we met one of these men in Europe, and we got talking about. . .I think I said or somebody said, "How did you like being in the United States?" He said, oh, it was a fine place, but he didn't like the food. Of course, I took it personally. [Laughter]