Careerist

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--particularly with the delegation from Siam. Weyman had let it be known that in World War II he personally rescued Siam's Prince Wan Waithayakon from a Japanese prison.

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 attache 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 G. Harding. In 1926, claiming to be a prominent Hollywood physician, he tried to take charge of Rudolph Valentino's funeral services in New York. Other roles: Lieut. Commander Royale St. Cyr, French air corps; Peruvian ambassador.

During World War II, Weinberg taught draft dodgers how to simulate deafness, heart trouble and other disorders rating 4-F classification, at fees from $200 to $2,000. Caught, he was sentenced to seven years in prison in 1943. Paroled in 1948, Weinberg, still on probation, drifted casually into the United Nations. Last week he drifted out again. His U.N. credentials were revoked. But many of his Lake Success acquaintances felt like the prison warden who once said: "He has a splendid brain, only it works in the wrong channels."

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