By Ann Nicholson
In Alistair Cooke's 1981 book, Memories of the Great and the Good, he entitled one of his chapters "Wodehouse at Eighty." Reporting on his interview at Plum's home, Cooke described his host as a "big pink shambling bald-headed man with thick glasses . . . dressed in a long linen coat over a small-check shirt, fawn trousers, and canvas shoes." The two men discussed Evelyn Waugh's latest piece about PGW, touched on the Woosters, bemoaned the present type of humorist, and Wodehouse admitted to living as somewhat of a recluse. As Cooke left the house, his host went back inside and into "the real world of Psmith and Jeeves."