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Remarkable Names of Real People or How to Name Your Babyby John Train
illustrated vy Pierre Le-Tan
preface by S. J. Perelman
Publisher: Clarkson N. Potter, copyright John Train 1977
ISBN is 9780517543030 / 0517543036
Paperback
4.7 x 7 inches, 64 pages
John Pell Coster Train (May 25, 1928 – August 13, 2022) was an American investment advisor and writer. He was a founding editor of The Paris Review.
Train served in the U.S. Army. After working in Wall Street, he founded the New York investment counsel firm now known as Train, Babcock Advisors. During this period, he became the principal owner of Château Malescasse, a Cru Bourgeois wine producer in Lamarque, Gironde in France. He was chairman of the Montrose Group, investment advisers and tax accountants, and was a director of a major emerging markets mutual fund. He was the founder-chairman of the Train Foundation, which since 2000 has annually awarded the Civil Courage Prize for "steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk." The Prize was… Read More