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...Benedetti Arrested...
Italy's biggest postwar financial scandal brought down an industrial titan when Carlo De Benedetti, chairman of Olivetti, was sentenced to six years and four months in prison for complicity in the 1982 collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's largest private bank. He promises an appeal...
...COMPLETE DEAN BENEDETTI RECORDINGS OF CHARLIE PARKER (Mosaic). Alto saxophonist Charlie Parker almost single-handedly changed the course of jazz history with his lightning-fingered improvisations, rhythmic subtleties and harmonic genius -- not to mention the fast-living, drug-shooting life-style that led to his death at 34 and was, unfortunately, widely imitated by his contemporaries. One such was Dean Benedetti, a West Coast jazzman who copied Bird in every way he could, down to and including his own premature death at 34. But Benedetti left behind an extraordinary legacy: a cache of impromptu recordings that he had made...
...showdown came at an emergency stockholders meeting demanded by De Benedetti and his allies, where more than 1,000 shareholders crowded into a carnival tent set up behind Societe Generale's elegant offices in Brussels. Despite a last-minute plea by De Benedetti, in which he argued that the 166- year-old conglomerate, best known as La Generale, needed better management, he was rebuffed...
...Benedetti may not have managed to muster the majority vote needed to take control of the firm, but La Generale has not heard the last of him. He still holds 45% of the shares, more than enough to have a major voice in the restructuring process that the firm now plans to undertake. Said he: "Sooner or later, in a week, in a month, in six months or a year, I and my associates will play the major role that belongs...