Evening star., 1948-10-31
Reading and Writing
Dr.. Mann Pouses in His Geological
Tracks to Write an Autobiography

pupllSned on November y. CURIOUS
ly enough it won't be about the Zoo.
He'll have to write two more to
cover that. This one will take him
up to his first Government job with
the Bureau of Entymology. It
describes his boyhood in Helena,
Mont, where he was born in 1885;
his education at Staunton Military
Academy Che first worked at the
Zoo during an enforced vacation
caused by fire there, the State
College of Washington, Stanford
and Harvard. 1t will also clear UP
the apocryphal story that he once
worked for the circus. He loves
them and has travelled with them,
but only as a guest. He still has
the letter that Charles Ringing
sent in response to his application
for a job: Would advise a boy your
age to choose some other line, Of
occupation as more desirable In
every respect" -
Never Grew Up. e
During his youth he loved animals
and collected specimens. MY boy
hood was like any other boys" says
DR.. Mann, except I never OUT
grew it,"
In his three years labor on ths
book he had the help and advice
of his wife, former woman's mag
azine editor who has three books ON
animals to her credit.
She has accompanied him On
every one of his animal hunting ex-
petitions, which have been frequent
and far-fung, since their marriage.
She has also reared the wild young
things rejected by their mothers,
which her husband has brought
home to her They have included
baby lions. tigers and a warthog.
This will not be DR.. Mann's first
literary venture. A contributor to
the Library of Congress quarterly
book list and to scientific magazines,
he is the author of wild Animals
In and Out of the Zoo" which he
says has three good things about IT.:
1t has handsome binding, is too
expensive for his scientific friends to
buy and enabled me to take my wife
on a hunting expedition.
For diversion he likes Gilbert and
Sullivan songs, but says his voice IL
so bad he never sings them, except
in the jungle, and even then "it's 50
terrible 7 annoy myself"
X X X
Visitors and a report from
abroad: Sol Bloom, veteran repre-
sentative from New York, inter-
rupted his brisk campaign for re.
election long enough to do a httls
campaigning in behalf of his re-
Gently published autobiography.
Natty and affable as ever, he auto
graphed books in a downtown book
store, pridlng himself on his DASH
ing penmanship and completely
different inscription for every GUS
toner. Stanley Walker, one of
the great city editors of all time,
who wrote a book about the subject
that is just about classic, passed
through the Capital over the week
end, en- route to his ranch in Lam
pasos, Tex. He said over the tele-
phone he has two long-term book
projects in the works: One q study
of Texas, which will take four or
five years; another of an oil COM
pany, which will take three An
underground report from England
advises that Kay Summersby,s
chatty wartime memoirs, "Eisen-
hover Was My Boss" is being
virtually burned" over there for its
criticism of the beloved Monty"
Meanwhile, Miss Summersby's
ex-boss, President Eisenhower OF
Columbia, that is, will have his
book, Crusade in Europe" pub
IliShed on November %,