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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ephraim Tutt is one of the few fictitious characters who has ever written his autobiography. Yankee Lawyer is a genial hodgepodge of fact & fiction, includes almost everything a reader needs for a good time: human-interest stories from Mr. Tutt's legal life; anecdotes about Mr. Tutt's nonfictional contemporaries ("Teddy" Roosevelt, Richard Harding Davis, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes); and Mr. Tutt himself, as American as a Stephen Foster song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Legal Fiction | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...Lawyer Tutt, the ramshackle figure in a rusty frock coat, stovepipe hat, stand-up collar and string bow tie, the canny mind that slyly wrenches law into justice, first came to public attention in a story written by Arthur Train in the Satevepost of June 7, 1919. Illustrating the story was a drawing of Tutt by Arthur William Brown (for which Frank Wilson, a retired actor, posed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Legal Fiction | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

Since then Author Train has written almost a hundred Tutt stories. Some of them (says Tutt) have become as familiar to lawyers as folk tales, have been cited from the bench as quasi-legal authority, have helped many a candidate pass his bar examinations. In fact, like Sherlock Holmes, Ephraim Tutt has become more famous than his creator. So by writing Lawyer Tutt's autobiography, Author Train was able to achieve more than by writing (or rewriting) his own (My Day in Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Legal Fiction | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

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