Leg pull
Sir: Years ago, I used to dine at Brooks's with Philip Delves Broughton's kinsman, Sir Evelyn. He had one bad leg and I was generally legless. But I decline to have my leg pulled by Philip. He claims (`Mule-div- ing for the high jump', 22 August) that the diving horse (at the end of the pier, not off it) at Atlantic City went into retirement in 1972. The fact is that the horse came up from Florida in the Thirties and was replaced by younger versions as and when time demanded. A horse was still hard at it some six years later in 1978.
I know all this because, when I was in Atlantic City in 1978 dealing with the Mob in setting up the first laser-lit disco (the project was slightly inhibited by the fact that our side only had forged travellers' cheques to the value of $72,000), the Mob's brief sought to hire me to compere the wretched horse. All these negotiations were conducted in Latz's Knife and Fork Inn (est. 1904), so named, no doubt, to distin- guish it from other less reputable establish- ments where diners merely used their hands.
Simon Cawkwell
3/59 Drayton Gardens, London SW10
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