Word: consulate
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Found Objects. Born in Stockholm 40 years ago, he grew up in Chicago, where his father was Swedish consul general. "I lived a private, shy life," Oldenburg says, "built around an imaginary country I invented, called Neubern, located in the southern Atlantic." By the age of 16, he was spending a lot of time in burlesque houses. "Talking to the dancers," he recalls, "you found beauty in extremely negative things, because there was nothing else." After four years at Yale and a brief period as a police reporter, he committed himself to art. "I had always thought I would...
...LITTLE MAN FROM BROOKLYN, by St. Clair McKelway. The incredible life of Stanley Clifford Weyman, who cracked the upper crust by posing at various times as U.S. consul general to Algiers, a physician and a French naval officer...
...LITTLE MAN FROM BROOKLYN, by St. Clair McKelway. The incredible life of Stanley Clifford Weyman, who cracked the upper crust by posing at various times as U.S. Consul General to Algiers, a physician and a French naval officer...
...LITTLE MAN FROM BROOKLYN, by St. Clair McKelway. The incredible life of Stanley Clifford Weyman, who cracked the upper crust by posing at various times as U.S. Consul General to Algiers, a physician and a French naval officer...
Impossible dream? Perhaps. But during his lifetime the man known as Stanley Clifford Weyman was feted as the U.S. Consul General to Algiers, highly praised as Silent Star Pola Negri's private physician and duly appointed Special Deputy Attorney General of New York. In addition-among countless other achievements-he helped handle the arrangements for Rudolph Valentino's celebrated funeral, once addressed a medical convention on "psychiatric treatment in prison institutions" and managed to be received at the White House as an interpreter assigned to a visiting princess from Afghanistan...