I wrote to my childhood hero, and said just come on up. So July 1959, I went to Tokyo for the first time. Internship, you can put it in the resume, but basically it’s shadowing a zookeeper everyday, and also in 1960, I thought was such a glorious job, seriously, to shovel elephant manure in hot, humid day at the bottom of the pit, shoveling. And to me, it was glorious. A dream come true.
