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Show Miss Maurine Whipple Receives a. Considerable Publicity r Miss Maurine Whipple, winner of the Houghton-Mifflin $1,000 writing fellowship, was the recipient reci-pient of "plenty of publicity" as indicated by newspaper clippings sent to friends during her recent three weeks in Boston. Conferring with the management of Houghton-Mifflin company, by whom her book, when completed, is to be published, Miss Whipple has had ample opportunity to pose before the candid cameras and answer the hundred and more questions of interviewers whose answers are on the pad almost before she has time to speak, states this young Dixie writer. In spite of her small country background, Miss Whipple feels the pressure of the big cities lightly and states she enjoyed immensely the July 4th week-end at the country home of the company's com-pany's manager and his wife, in the Massachusetts Eay region. However, she declares she will be intensely happy to get back name and at work on her book again, much as she has enjoyed this bit of publicity. Leaving Baltimore last week with a number of critics and writers, she will attend the Rooky Mountain Writer's Conference at Boulder, Colo. which will be in session until August 12. There also she will attend as a fellow writer, which is considered recognition for one has never had a book published, say those familiar with such setup. Stepping into public libraries and coming face to face with herself in publicity posters affords "a little thrill, even though it perhaps shouldn't" states Miss Whipple. She expresses herself tut feeling this obligates her further to make good on hT IxKik, and she proposes drvoting her bfst ffforl thereto, when she returns honv. |