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MOTHERED BY A PUMA—Tiie. Washington Zoo’s three Bengal 
tiger cubs, born Sunday to Ben and -Gal, are doing nicely, as is 
plain to see, in this, their first picture. Dr. William Mann, Zoo 
director, has high hopes of their living to break a 20-year record. 
None of three litters born at the Zoo m that time nave lived 
because their mother “killed them with kindness” carrying them 
around in her mouth. The newest litter has been given to a 
puma for nursing 
Zoo Director Writes of Life 
Up to 16 in Ant Hill Odyssey 
To his many other activities, Dr. (in wealth was when, as fly-catch- 
tir-ir rfr.wf.rr the ling assistant at the Harvard Modi-; I 
WUliam M. Mann,,director of tiui.J j ha(l been paid $50| -» 
; National Zoo, has added a month.,” lie writes 
I biography. j In the 30 years before going to : 
At 62 years of ;W ork for the Government, Mann i 
age, chat n -'had made a number of trips to vari-i 
smoking, twin~; 0 us parts of the world to collect; 
kle-eyed “Doc” specimens, and these trips are de- 
Mann has taken scribed in the book. ! c 
a backward; On one of these expeditions he !S 
glance in his heard a Fiji Islander refer to ah 
in 
newly published 
“Ant Hill Odys 
sey.” / 
The 338-page 
book, reflecting 
the personality 
that has won 
him hosts of friends, carries the 
story of his life up to 1916, when* 
cake as being “as tough as Dr.;c 
Baker’s boots.” Curious as to the 
origin of this expression. Mann a 
learned that Dr. Baker had been j 
a missionary who had been eon-; v 
sumed by cannibals. t 
A leg encased in a Wellington 
boot had been sent to one village 
headman, who had enjoyed the 
, His starting salary was $1800 a 
| year and “incredible.” “The only 
'time I had ever really wallowed 
<?fnrv of his life up to laio, ~ r 
hc first , |fS m F o e tog[rt tbej* 
i°Sy* , , . )eaten the boot too, they enjoyed', 
the storf so much that it had be-j a 
come a proverb. i 
Mann’s travels began in child-!, 
hood. Born in Montana, where hisjj 
ioarents had gone by covered wag¬ 
on, he ran away from cowherding { 
Iwhen 12 years old to live on aj* 
ranch for a time. [„ 
Mann’s father w r as a “harness) 
maker, something of an inventor, 
and an amateur taxidermist,” who . 
'died when the boy was 7. Pos-j; 
sibly Dr. Mann’s interests were;) 
shaped by the paternal interest in " 
i taxidermy. At any rate, at the age i 
of 4 he was collecting small animal; 
| life, and he was still in his youth it 
iwhen a species of ant was named 1 
j for him. “Formica Manni. ’ t 
Whether he will bring his story Is 
■ up to date in another volume,|a 
iMapn doesn’t know, 
i “It is a relief to have this one 
done,” he added, “after playing at 
it off and on for a couple of years.” 
CITY LIFE 
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1948 
1 First Picture of Zoo's Bengal T iger Cubs 
