Playboy After Hours

December, 1974

All right, we won't kick him while he's down; but we can nudge him, can't we? A passage from P. G. Wodehouse's Brinkley Manor, published in 1933, reads as follows (Jeeves is speaking to Bertie Wooster):"Two men named Nicholls and Jackson set out to ride to Brighton on a tandem bicycle, and were so unfortunate as to come into collision with a brewer's van. And when the rescue party arrived on the scene of the accident, it was discovered that they had been hurled together with such force that...