Presumably this happened sometime between the late 1930s–early 40s, when Weidman (b. 1913) was a “very young man, just beginning to make my way”. Per Wikipedia,

Presumably this happened sometime between the late 1930s–early 40s, when Weidman (b. 1913) was a “very young man, just beginning to make my way”. Per Wikipedia, Weidman’s first novel was published in 1937.