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...subdivision. At that point, Yates exercised an option to buy the two magazines. Yates and Summers are reluctant to disclose details of the purchase, but they insist that their backers, which include the State Bank of New South Wales and a major U.S. bank, have provided their new company, Matilda Publishing, with enough cash to get through the start-up period...
...Tuesday night. About what? "Things personal, things political," says Jackson. He also talked to Paul Simon, but never connected with Dick Gephardt, who tried to reach him Tuesday night. The previous weekend Jackson spoke with Mario Cuomo. Did he ask for an endorsement? "Jesse said he'd rather have Matilda," joked the Governor, referring to his wife. The one candidate who seems not to care about stroking Jackson is Michael Dukakis. It has been weeks since they talked at length, and Jackson has not formed the same bond with the cool Yankee Governor as he has with Gore...
...Speaking Matilda. Is the press asking the wrong question? Maybe it's Cuomo's wife who's running. The Governor called a Washington friend last week to ask a special favor: Would the friend arrange for Wife Matilda to address the National Press Club in Washington...
...hours after he was acquitted of charges of international drug trafficking and Mafia association, Antonino Ciulla, 35, was gunned down in Palermo on his way to celebrate his release. Italian police also launched an investigation into the execution- , style slaying of Businessman Francesco Gitto, 58, a first cousin of Matilda Cuomo, the wife of New York Governor Mario Cuomo. Gitto, a well-known figure in his hometown of Barcellona in eastern Sicily, was not known to have Mafia ties. But police said the .38-cal. pistol used to kill him had been used in two other suspected Mafia homicides...
Hoping to record a collaboration that would lead to a revolution in human thought, Kenneth is stuck instead with a farce out of Balzac. Benn's wife and in-laws have plans for him. Matilda can hardly be supported as is her wont on her husband's salary of $60,000. But Benn has assets he has absentmindedly forgotten: an uncle of his, a notable crook in the disintegrating local Democratic machine, once bilked him and Kenneth's mother out of huge proceeds from the sale of family property. Dr. Layamon tells Benn man to man: "Well, as you will...