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Show Maurine Whipple Returns From Two-Month's Trip Miss Maurine Whipple, author of "Giant Joshua", returned late last Friday from a two-month's trip which included the summer Boulder, Boul-der, Colorado Conference of Rocky Mountain Writers at which she was an associate on the staff, and a stop-over in Salt Lake City and visited down the coast to San Francisco and Los Angeles. With reference to the publication publica-tion of her book, for which she finished the script early in July, Miss Whipple has numerous letters let-ters of commendation from members mem-bers of the editorial staff of Houghten-Mifflin, her publishers. These have been received during her stay at Boulder and since her return from the conference. According Ac-cording to these letters her book will be off the press January 3, 1941, and the publishers are loud in their praise of the book and of the author's versatility in its production. They are setting aside a huge sum, editorially speaking, for the preliminary advertising of this book, which according to their statements will fully justify the expenditure. Relaxing for a brief period following fol-lowing her strenuous final weeks on the book, and the month at the Boulder conference, Miss Whipple says she plans to do at least two short stories before be-1 ginning definite work on the sec ond volume of her fictionalized story of the west, which the publishers pub-lishers insist upon. Local people, who are familiar with much of the country and with many of the historical events included in Miss Whipple's book, are anxiously awaiting the release re-lease of reading copies. Those who have been permitted to read sections of the orginal script declare de-clare this local girl is carving a definite place for herself with this novel. |