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Arthur Train, whose silk-hatted Lawyer Ephraim Tutt has long been a famous fiction, had some real lawyer trouble to worry about. His new book, Yankee Lawyer: The Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt, had caused considerable pain to the person of Lewis R. Linet. Said Philadelphia Lawyer Linet, suing for $3.50 worth of fraudulence: "I bought the book thinking it was nonfiction. [It] is a hoax upon the plaintiff and the reading public...
...past journalistic crusades. Now white-thatched, withered, 87, the onetime editor of Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Winston Churchill's father Randolph has been working for years on a book called The Coming of Freedom. Said National Institute President Arthur ("Mr. Tutt") Train: "The American people owe a great debt to this man, once famous, now almost forgotten." Said old-time Editor McClure (who will get his medal-and $1,000-in May): "I am unfamiliar with [present magazines]. I haven't read one in ten years...
...higher the civilization, he says, the fewer laws it needs. "The only way to attain justice," says Tutt, "is by doing it ourselves every day-with our own hands-to each other-at home-and in the world outside...
...Tutt is a democrat (with both a small and a capital D). He claims to be a "qualified New Dealer." When the Columbia Law Review remarked that a contribution from Tutt, which it had just published, aroused the suspicion that Tutt was a bit of a fascist, the old man cracked back that "people who lived in glass houses had better refrain from throwing stones. . . ." Whereupon Columbia offered, and Tutt accepted, an honorary LL.D...
...Tutt v. Talk. Tutt believes the curse of the modern world is the fact that it is governed by talkers ("whose influence has been multiplied a millionfold by the radio"). Metaphysical notions about the nature of the universe, and human life, do not disturb him. Nor is he disheartened by the slowness of man's progress. Though his life is closing in a clouded world, Ephraim Tutt has faith that in the U.S. "the pennants still fly gallantly and the trumpets echo to the challenge of 'Liberty and Equality' and of 'Justice for the Common...