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...County. As a writer, he has authored 40 books from love stories (The Needle's Eye) to firsthand reporting of his police and court experiences (Courts, Criminals and the Camorra). But most people know Arthur Train as the creator of tall, gaunt, kindly, shrewd, humorous, cigar-smoking Lawyer Ephraim Tutt, who by using the tricks of the law to outsmart the tricks of the law, manages to evoke a brand of justice that, if not strictly according to Blackstone, is humane and just...
...other, begun early last year, presents famed Publicist George Ephraim Sokolsky, a sort of star-spangled spieler :or capitalism, in talks and interviews on ligh taxes, scared private capital, benevolent monopoly, malevolentisms...
Billed as "nonsectarian and non-partisan," the 13 lectures were "expected to result in a rediscovery of spiritual and patriotic values in this community." Playwright Channing Pollock labeled his address: "I Am a Reactionary." The others did not need to. Among them: George Ephraim Sokolsky; Mark Sullivan; Editor Henry Justin Allen of the Topeka State Journal; handsome Dr. Ruth Alexander, who has been touring the U. S. publicizing religion as a prop for capitalism (TIME, Dec. 19); and two Methodists, onetime Governor Arthur Hyde of Missouri and Chicago Banker Wilbur Helm, who four years ago formed the Conference of Methodist...
...largest stockholder. Then, financially secure, he turned to public affairs and became trustee of the infantile State Agricultural College just founded at Ovid, N. Y. He nourished the little school with $300,000 and moved it to Ithaca. Alike in appearance to Arthur Train's venerable Ephraim Tutt, of Saturday Evening Post stories fame, Ezra's tall, spare figure, set off with frock coat and shiny stovepipe hat, was a familiar sight on the campus. His checks and gifts were also familiar--and welcome...
...subtlest performer for Hill & Knowlton was George Ephraim Sokolsky, author, lecturer, industrial consultant. Some of Mr. Sokolsky's lecturing was done at "civic progress meetings" arranged and paid for by local employers but publicly sponsored by "neutral" groups. Since his return seven years ago from a varied journalistic career in the Far East, able, intelligent Publicist Sokolsky has become a one-man intellectual front for conservative capital. His principal outlets are a weekly syndicated column which appears on the editorial page of the Republican New York Herald Tribune and a weekly radio program sponsored by the National Association...