61.   A publishing executive, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it was because of objections to doing business with Rosetta.

62.   Murdoch has said he told publishing executives last summer that he was unhappy with the decision to commission the book and to suggest another publisher.

63.   The donation by Nan Tucker McEvoy, a California arts patron and former publishing executive, follows a similar gift in January from the Henry Luce Foundation.