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...city-room pecking order at most big dailies, the real estate editor ranks somewhat below the writer who covers high school sports; his main function is to supply a few columns of editorial top-dressing for the real estate ads. Albert Jedlicka of the Chicago. Daily News is a glittering exception. With a yearlong, still-continuing series of stories in the tradition of the hard-digging reporter-detective, Jedlicka has played a major role in exposing a mortgage-financing scandal that has rocked the Chicago real estate and building industries (see U.S. BUSINESS...
...least two years Jedlicka had been hearing rumors that some of the city's smaller suburban savings and loan associations were in trouble, but the first hard news came with last April's announcement that tiny Hillside S. & L. (assets: $13.9 million) was being merged with financially stronger Oak Park Federal S. & L. ($147 million). Jedlicka wrote the story as a straight news item; then he began...
AppalIing Abuses. His spadework was painstaking and effective. A native of Chicago, Jedlicka still remembers his father's making mortgage payments at the neighborhood S. & L., which had an office in a grocery. Jedlicka has what his boss, Daily News Executive Editor Larry Fanning, calls "a good sense of moral indignation...
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Franz Josef's Command. Jeritza, a Moravian, was born Mitzi Jedlicka, a name she glamorized after she became a Viennese prima donna. Emperor Franz Josef, who heard her at the Vienna Volksoper, commanded her to the Vienna Court Opera and gave her the Austrian Order of Knighthood, first class.* For ten years she was the operatic toast of Europe's gayest capital. Her tall (5 ft. 7 in.) figure was as trim as a dressmaker's model, and as muscular as a middleweight champion. For her combined vocal and physical prowess Puccini named her his "greatest Tosca...