i William M. Mann, Wash¬ 
ington zoo director, was admitted 
to Georgetown hospital yesterday 
for vertebra surgery. 
The genial director. 
ives 
Mill 
posits 
.| who 
2800 block Adams 
NW., has calcium 
spine which have 
been causing him 
several months. 
laid 
about 10 days and then return to 
animals 
om which, 
riends say, even a 10 days’ sepa 
ation is intolerable to him. 
Mann 
arded 
one 
oremost animal authorities in 
nation, has been zoo director 
since 1925 
numer 
ous wild animal expedition 
Africa and South America. 
