26 OCTOBER 1962, page 28

Black Jacket

NORMAN MAILER'S critical overdraft is becoming enormous. In the end, like Joe Louis, he may be able to do no better than settle the tax on it. Last time out, in Advertisements......

Cocking A Snook

Starting Grid to Chequered Flag. By Paul Frere. (Batsford Paperbacks, 5s) AFTER the deaths in 1958, within a few weeks of each other, of Luigi Musso, Peter Collins and Archie......

Profane Perfections

Renaissance Painting. Introduction by Franco Russoli. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 12s. 6d.) THESE two paperbacks are 'he first in an ambitious series of twelve. They are slightly......