It was the lunch hour in Manhattan and all over the city waiters with flawless manners were getting orders wrong and with many an expert nourish placing the scrambled eggs before the man who ordered stuffed veal. Suddenly 40 immigration officials, 40 Canadian border patrolmen and 100 city detectives sprang from nowhere, seized 70 Italian waiters, and spread consternation through the $2-luncheon belt.
At the 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...
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