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...books to his credit, including Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, on which the movie Patton was partially based, and The Broken Seal, which was one basis for the movie Tora! Tora! Tora! He has also contracted, for an advance of more than $150,000, to write two books for Doubleday, one of them on J. Edgar Hoover. But first, he proposes to expand his Bormann material into a book for Simon & Schuster, with whom he contracted last week for an advance of more than $100,000 (on top of the $100,000 that the newspaper series will probably earn...
...result, 5,000 Nights at the Opera (Doubleday; $10), is a good book that should have been better. Indulging in the perennial prerogative of the autobiographer, Bing opts mostly for one side of the story-his. He says nothing of his glaring failure to bring Soprano Beverly Sills to the Met, for example, but grows highly petulant because she and the New York City Opera scheduled Donizetti's Tudor trilogy (Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena, Roberto Devereux) at the same time he was planning it at the Met for the Spanish prima donna Montserrat Caballé. "We finally accepted...
BARE RUINED CHOIRS: DOUBT, PROPHECY AND RELIGION by Garry Wills. 272 pages. Doubleday...
...pages. Doubleday...
...OGRE by MICHEL TOURNIER translated by BARBARA BRAY 373 pages. Doubleday...