Where fact meets fiction.(phony resumes)(Column)

Byline: James Brady

Why do otherwise smart people phony up their resumes when they must know they're going to get caught? See Freddy Ferrer. The other day, when Freddy's latest gaffe ("I said I went to public school, but it was really parochial school'') hit the front pages, I decided to call Flanagan. William G. Flanagan, longtime Forbes columnist who earlier wrote for The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, New York and Esquire, is one of the acknowledged experts when it comes to faking the old curriculum vitae.

So I got him out at his place in Hampton Bays, where