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...Clams or Oysters?" The sessions are conducted according to tradition as tenacious as the Yale bulldog. Members arrive on a Friday morning, meet in committees (educational policy, finance, budgets, endowments and gifts, buildings and grounds, honorary degrees), and in the evening go to Mory's, where the waiter laconically asks each of them: "Clams or oysters? Steak or lobster?" Informal talks are leavened by tact, wit and persuasive intellectual argument. "There is a tremendous sodality," says Walpole Scholar Wilmarth Lewis, who holds the record for continuous membership, 26 years...
...Beethoven is a man of atrocious manners, immense ego and ungovernable temper who at one time or another turned on virtually every one of his friends and alienated most of the musicians of Vienna. His idea of a joke was to dump a bowl of gravy on a waiter who had brought him the wrong dish...
...after a brief bout of drinking. One sucker discovered to his horror that he had been buying champagne for the whole house, including band and B-girls, and finally coughed up $600. Blackmail, extortion and strong-arm tactics complete the repertory, and in recent years many a waiter has become an owner himself, or else tucked away a small fortune before leaving the Raper for more respectable surroundings...
Most blatant of the district's toughs was balding, broad-shouldered Paulie Muller, 38, head of the "Black Gang" and "King of Sankt Pauli." Flanked by his muscle man, a hulking waiter known as "Hans the Swine," and tailed by such hangers-on as "Boxer Fred," "Emil the Bull" and "Gambler Heini," Muller cut a wide swath along the Raper, intimidating bar owners and roughing up anyone who challenged him. But last October Paulie Muller met his nemesis in the form of a camel's-hair coat...
...brand-new and the proud property of a nightclub waiter named Heinz ("Harry the Ox") Hopp. When Muller expropriated the coat for himself, Hopp got hopping mad, pulled a gun on Paulie and was rewarded for his temerity with a beating that put him in the hospital for a month. It was enough to turn Harry the Ox into Harry the Fink: he provided the police with sufficient evidence against Muller and the Black Gang to bring them to trial. Last week a motley audience of shills, pimps, whores, strippers and bullyboys gathered in Hamburg's dingy criminal court...