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Theodor Seuss Geisel， better known to the world as the beloved Dr. Seuss， was born in 1904 in Springfield， Massachusetts. Geisel’s father， Theodor Robert， and grandfather were 1）brewmasters in the city. His mother， Henrietta Seuss Geisel， often 2）soothed her children to sleep by repeating 3）rhymes remembered from her youth. Geisel 4）credited his mother to be his first 5）inspiration.
Although the onset of World War I and Prohibition注6）presented both 7）financial and social challenges for the German 8）immigrants， the family managed to make it through， providing the young Geisel and his sister，Marnie， with happy childhoods.
His childhood in Springfield inspired some of his work， such as Horton the Elephant walking along streams in the Jungle of Nool， which mirror the waterways of the town.
Geisel left Springfield as a teenager to attend Dartmouth College， where he became 9）editor-in-chief of the Jack-O-Lantern， Dartmouth’s humor magazine. His time as editor ended sooner than expected， however， when Geisel and his friends were caught throwing a drinking party， which was against the prohibition laws and school 10）policy， but he continued to 11）contribute to the magazine， signing his work “Seuss，” which was both Geisel’s middle name and his mother’s 12）maiden name.
To please his father， who wanted him to be a college professor， Geisel went on to Oxford University in England after graduation. However， his 13）academic studies bored him， and he decided to tour Europe instead. Oxford did provide him the opportunity to meet a classmate， Helen Palmer， who encouraged him to become a professional 14）illustrator and became his first wife.
After returning to the United States， Geisel began to 15）pursue a career as a cartoonist. The Saturday Evening Post and other publications 16）featured some of his early pieces， but most of Geisel’s activity during his early career was devoted to creating advertisements for Standard Oil， which he did for more than 15 years.
During World War II， Geisel turned his focus towards 17）political cartoons. He drew more than 400 cartoons for New York’s daily newspaper， PM. In 1943， Geisel 18）enrolled in the US army as 19）commander of the Animation 20）Department. There he made 21）a series of army training films. His work with the First Motion Picture Unit of the US Army introduced him to the art of animation.