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of three days--breakfast was a set price--they had charged us a dollar a glass extra for the orange juice. We ran down to the manager and said, “We haven't the slightest intention of paying this. How can you charge a dollar a glass for orange juice when you can go out and pick oranges up for nothing?”

What did he say?

He said, “The waiter must have told you that orange juice was a dollar a glass, and if you don't pay it, the poor waiter will have to pay it.”

I said, “Send for the waiter. I want to hear you tell him that.”

Without a word he crossed off the orange juice price.

They got as much as they could.

That's the way it was in 1934, unprincipled. I mean, they just got away with what they could. They didn't even argue with you. If you called them on it, they just crossed it off the bill.

Were you looking at all for authors or were you just enjoying yourselves?

Just enjoying ourselves. One thing I'll never forget indicates the kind of people that have made Israel a country.