Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lifetime profession: impostor. Brooklyn-born Weinberg started his career in 1910 by posing as a naval attaché in the Serbian embassy in Washington. As a U.S. consul in Morocco, he was received in New York harbor by U.S. fleet units. Once his Brooklyn accent betrayed him at a banquet at the Hotel Astor, where he was posing as the U.S. consul general from Rumania. He was exposed, but managed to stay out of jail. In 1921, he got into the White House by posing as a "U.S. protocol representative," introduced Afghanistan's Princess Fatima to President Warren...
...with a whoosh; he was dusted off by blasts from the police band, photographed, hustled into an automobile, delivered to the Waldorf-Astoria behind exactly 32 motorcycle cops, bowed into a suite, led out of it again, and then formally welcomed to the city at a three-hour banquet...
Then he reviewed a parade, spoke at a big luncheon, whirled up to Columbia University, accepted an LL.D. degree, made a speech, whirled back, and went to another banquet. Bright & early the next day, he was driven up the Hudson. He laid a wreath on Franklin Roosevelt's grave, lunched with Eleanor Roosevelt, went on to West Point, reviewed a parade, listened to two 21-gun salutes (one coming, one going) by 105-mm. howitzers and hurried back to the city...
...laid two palm fronds below two tablets at the French Line pier, hustled into the new U.N. building, was cheered, hustled back to the Waldorf, and gave a reception for 2,000 people of New York's French colony. That night, hoarse but willing, he spoke at another banquet, and again as throughout his stay, managed to say just the right thing, even after it was translated from the French...
...Buffalo, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. Smith plans to rejoin the group in St. Louis this Sunday, then play at Indianapolis on Monday, Detroit on Tuesday, Milwaukee on Wednesday, and Boston on Thursday in the final game of the trip. He will then fly to New York for a team banquet at Toots Shor's on Saturday. In addition to both teams, the troupe includes a few Jugglers, two Chinese acrobats, and a band...