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I THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE-JUNE 11 191g -23 away for use on roads and driveways. The contractor estimates that it will be gone in 15 years. "I Never Knew Anybody" Title of Her Next Book, She Says. Manntaht Being Removed LINCOLN, IlL (AP)--Mt. Eyesore is disappearing.

You won't find It on the map. It's a pile of mine shale, several hundred feet high, and it has obstructed the northward view from the town for years. The shale is being hauled Mrs. Ursula Curtiss, Who Received $1000 Prize for First Novel, Has Been Writing "Stories" Since She Was a Little Girl 0 DORO'rHY DIX, still top ad- viser on domestic problems, writes every day for the Morning and Evening Globe. wit By PAUL F.

KNEELAND Up three flights in a tiny apartment out on Huntington ay. near the Wentworth Institute sits todayperhaps rather disconsolatelya 23-year-old first novelist, Mrs. Ursula Curtiss, who has just tucked away a nice little $1000 prize. write funny stuff. It was funny.

all right. Doesn't advertising Copy like 'Our Coffin Lining Are Soft and Durable' make you want to roar with laughter?" Real success in writing didn't (IQ Boston Pops Orchestra uses tho Ao, hero sleuth has two shots of Bout. bon to" breakfast. '2) Old faintly gathering-type; somebody's always making out a will and gets shot or stabbed early In the book. '3) Girl-heroine picking up overlooked clew-type; usually a glove that 1R police detectives have been stepping all over for six chapters.

'4) Little-did-she-know-type; dark figure lurking in shadow of 4 veranda, ready to do away with someone with a poison dart or something." And then Mrs. Curtiss bolted Upright in her easy chair. "'Little did she she quoted herself. "Little do I know I don't know myself where my next plot is coming from!" 411 rh IF YOU'VE ENJOYED Mutt-. and Jeff, Abner and Mary Worth today, be sure to follow: them daily in the comic section of the Boston Globe.

come until May, 1947, when she married a Yale man, John Curtiss who survived the Bataan death march, to become a sales manager with the New York firm which employed her. "1 began to write the book when we came to Boston, and Just before Katherine was born, in March, I finished it," Mrs. Curtiss continues. "1 couldn't think of a title for the mysteryit's a semi-psychological study to be published next Fallbut John quite helpfully surprised me when he suggested 'Voice Out of "John surprised me even more." she goes on, "when he told me of his three years in a Japanese prison camp. To think that after all that time on a starvation diet he still likes rice!" About the book: Mrs.

Curtiss doesn't say too much about it, except it isn't a "formula" whodun-it. "There are four kinds of mystery stories," she points out: 'I) The tough detective type; "It might be a hot July morning, yet she'd be pushing her characters through five feet of snow in a blizzard. Meanwhile, my sister and I would be having our fun, writing 500 pages or so-- longhandof 'stories'. Usually the 'stories' would have some eacotic setting India, maybe, about which we knew absolutely nothing." Following those happy Westport days and after graduation from Staples High School there, Mrs. Curtiss moved closer to the "real thing" in authorship by acting as her mother's secretary for a year.

Then in the Fall of '42 she got a job in Fairfield, doing double duty as society editor and general maid-of-all-editorial-work on a weekly newspaper. "In off-hours during my 13- month stretch in the newspaper business I'd read Robert Bench-ley, Corey Ford. and S. J. Perelman," she recalls, "and then try to write stuff as funny as Robert Bench ley, Corey Ford, and S.

J. Perelman. But when I left Connecticut for New York and the advertising business, I was still trying to 71 se lc ut ly, al ssI I r. 1g kd 7k 3- 1- 73r rt J. It 0 Piano Exclusively Piano tbuin 1.

Exclusively -Z .6. ALSTO 41164CMS de Jelacoa2ve dr 1 "It was the award Dodd, Mead Co. gave me last week for a mystery story, 'Voice Out of which I wrote last Fall," she explains. "But I won't be satisfied until I write an 'I Knew' piece." There was a slight pause as this young lady with the sly, dimpled smile tossed back her auburn hair and reached for a cigarette, "of course you know what 'I Knew' pieces are don't you?" she teases. "They're those things in magazines with titles like 'I Was Vandenberg's 'I Knew Stassen's 'I Kept House for 4 "Well, I'd like to do one now myself: .1 Never Knew But Mrs.

Curtiss was only kidding, for she really DOES know somebodylots of names-in-thenews are her friends, especially literary names. like Van Wyck Brooks, William Mc Fee, Anne Parrish, and Ursula (for whom she was NOT named) Parrott. Incidentally, she's the daughter of Helen Reilly who has bumped off about 60 innocent-and-otherwise victims in they 28 murder mysteries she's knocked out in the past two decades. "I can remember always liking to write," Mrs. Curtiss continues, smoking a broken chain of cigarettes, "ever since I was a little girl in Westport, Conn.

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