I do remember the story, but not the series owned. Sorry. I just looked it up. His logic was sound based on what you wrote.
One significant investor who took a big hit in this case was Richard Rainwater. He tendered of all 3,945,000 shares of the Preferred F in exchange for 11,835,000 shares of the Issuer’s Common Stock from the Issuer. Rainwater had owned $98.625 million at par.