Word: weyman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WEYMAN C. HUCKABEE Secretary...
Stanley Clifford Weyman, a sad-looking, smooth-talking man of 60, blended into the fuzz-buzz edges of Lake Success as easily as any of that strange new tribe of international do-gooders who are not quite diplomats, not quite newspapermen, and not quite experts on anything. A correspondent of the Erwin News Agency, (headquarters in Washington), he had broadcast interviews with U.N. notables over a Manhattan F.M. radio station, served as a tipster for the London Daily Mirror. He had a marked talent for big-name-dropping, and for catching rides in official delegation cars. He made himself popular...
Recently, Weyman applied for a job as press-relations officer with the Siam delegation, wrote to the State Department to find out what diplomatic immunities that job would give him. The State Department, which had had Weyman in its sights for some time, now released some facts...
...Weyman's real name:Stephen Weinberg. His 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...