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...warning those below decks that mutineers plotted to start a scrap, cause arrests, then seize the Convention, Joe showed another glimpse of red underwear by roughly quashing an attempt to have him and other officers investigated on charges that there were Communists in the union's high places. Waiter Joe Doyle* of the S.S. Ancon, proponent of the resolution, asked for a trial board of outsiders, with one Daily Worker Red on it. No support came from the floor. From the chair: "This resolution is designed for one purpose-to smash the N.M.U." Doyle replied that its sole purpose...
...Ritz-Carlton five waiters took to their heels and got away. Only one, serving a group in the Oak Room, was caught-another waiter took over his customers and his tip. At the Ambassador, at the Caviar, at Joe's Restaurant, other rendezvous from Park Avenue to Sixth Avenue, the Government men struck so swiftly and quietly that customers just thought service was a little slower than usual. At the Pierre, necks were craned when a waiter, led off by two officers, let out a squawk: "They're taking us to jail...
Starting with the judge episode in "My Favorite Wife," the News traces the "Let's Pan Yale Crusade" through "Hired Wife," "The Villain Still Pursued Her," "Love Thy Neighbor," "Strawberry Blonde," and finally "The Lady Eve," in which a bored waiter gives vent to a sneering "We want Pike's Ale, the ale that won for Yale...
...Albany, Christopher Columbus, a waiter, failed to get into the Navy, but waited his turn in the draft. His order number...
Ernest Wolff,* 27-year-old Chicagoan, has been an opera buff ever since he was twelve, and made puppets to accompany his opera records. Once he got a job as waiter, then as chef, in a restaurant near the Met, so that he could spend his spare time there. Back in Chicago, he labored over his puppets, in 1938 gave a public show which was a critical success but a financial flop. In 1939 he was signed up by Gas Exhibits, Inc. at the New York World's Fair, performed his repertory-Carmen, Faust, Rigoletto, Pagliacci...