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...least a half-million more are expected in the next two years. The pressure of the flood is felt in every side of life in the new nation. If the phone doesn't work, the electricity goes off, the road is washed away, or a waiter doesn't know his job-Israelis blame it on "the ingathering of the exiles." A current joke in Israel: "For 2,000 years we Jews have been hoping and fighting and praying for The Return-and it had to happen...
Chubby, cheerful Bishop Pham Ngoc Chi celebrated the occasion by smoking his first cigarette in 23 years. At lunch, an excited waiter spilled gravy all over Bishop Le Huu Tu's white fleece cape and cream-colored soutane. After lunch, Bishop Le Huu Tu set out for his own see of Phat Diem aboard one of the principality's boats, flying the yellow & white papal standard, and manned by a crew of young huskies armed with new Tommy guns and wearing on their shoulders Le Huu Tu's own crest, a Chinese dragon coiled around a trumpet...
Five Pouilly-Fuissés. At the Restaurant Drouant in the Rue Gaillon, the academy members were taking longer than usual to make their annual selection. A waiter battled his way through the crowd, muttering: "My God, four ballots and five Pouilly-Fuissés and still these gentlemen have decided nothing!" Someone said: "They are not going to award a prize this year, they are not..." A voice roared: "Passageway! Clear a space for the photographers!" The door of the inner room opened, and looking solemnly down on the surging crowd stood Pierre Mac Orlan, painter, novelist, .and youngest...
...near New Paltz, N.Y. (which he bequeathed as a retirement place for chefs). Never a chef himself, Oscar had an artist's passion for selecting and serving food & drink. At 16, he got a job as busboy the day he arrived in Manhattan from Switzerland, quickly rose to waiter, then maitre d'hotel at Delmonico's, the old Waldorf, the new Waldorf-Astoria. He served sandwiches to fortify J. P. Morgan on the wintry eve of a Wall Street panic, catered to "Diamond Jim" Brady, Generals Grant and Sherman, various Presidents and kings. Until he retired...
...Drury was also a tough cop, handy with his fists and afraid of nobody. He habitually put the pinch on, or otherwise harassed, such hearties as Murray ("The Camel") Humphries, the late Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti, Louis ("Little New York") Campagna, Paul ("The Waiter") Ricca, Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, Big Al's biggest brother. Once he even tried to pin a murder rap on fish-eyed, elegantly tailored Charlie ("The Gentleman") Fischetti, one of Al Capone's top three heirs. And he hauled in Jack ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik, Al Capone's business brains, whenever he felt displeased with...