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Cop Who Doubles As Shakespeare Expert Started As Baseball Player in College Unittd Press Correspondent New York (U.R) Redmond O'Hanlon, the policergan who has achieved national promi nence by answering questions about Shakespeare on a televis ion quiz program, got to be n expert in a strange way. He ran baseball into pure scholarship. O'Hanlon will take the air on the $64,000 Question" program tonight to say whether he will keep the $16,000 he has won or risk losing it by trying the $sz, 000 question. He got into the Shakespeare racket as a result of one ques tion he asked in college. He's been in it for 16 years, without a nickel's reward until he got on the quiz show straining his eyes with reading during more than 6000 hours of research. All this work has produced a manuscript on O'Hanlon's spec ialty "The Story of Shake spearean Word-play." He hopes to get it published as a book to be used by teachers and others deeply interested in English literature. It's a neglected phase of Shakespeare study, the last work in the field having been done by a German in 1895. Baseball Did It Baseball got him into Shakes peare like this: He was a standout leftfielder at Manhattan college in the mid 1930's, and aftr two years there he got a baseball scholarship to Drew University. At Drew, he was the first baseball player to study English literature, getting a bachelor of arts degree in 1939 with close attention to Shake speare and the outfield. He would not have got into studying Shakespeare's puns and other wordplay had he not asked a question one day of Prof. Earl Aldrich. They were studying in the , play "Antony and Cleo patra," a passage in which a lady in waiting asks a soothsayer if he indeed has the power to foretell the future. He replies: "In na ture's infinite book of secrecy, a little I can read." "What does it mean?" O'Han lon asked. "Is it possible he means 'eye as well as T or what?" The professor locked at him and said: "why don't you try to find out?" Still Looking O'Hanlon did. That was 16 years ago, and so far he has col lected some 3600 instances of possible wordplay from Shakes peare's total output of 1,000,000 words. After a spell of coaching and teaching English at a school for delinquent boys, O'Hanlon began work toward a master's degree "ttutjKrillt -fot with The Finest for, Fifty Years! Ranges Customline Automatic All Electric Washers Kitchens Refrigerators Electric Sinks Disposals Water Heaters Air' Automatic Conditioners Dishwashers Food Freezers Dryers war ll came along, ana ne naa finished all his degree work ex cept the thesis when he joined the Red Cross as a field director in January, 1943. He carried the thesis which, naturally, was on Shakespearean wordplay through Army ma neuvers in four states and fin ished it in the Pacific, getting his degree in 1944. He was on the Peleliu invasion, one of the roughest in the entire Pacific war, and in the Philippines fight ing. After the war, he joined the New York Police Department; he had taken the police exam be fore leaving. Pounded Beats As a patrolman, he pounded beats on the Eowery and in Chinatown and became a .300 hitter on the department base ball team. Right now, he's on the staff of the police magazine. O'Hanlon, a bine-eyed, black- haired,' smiling Irishman, has five children, ranging from 10 New Paper Mill Set For Longview Area Seattle- (U.E Robert W. Har per, director of purchases for the Rhinelander Paper Co., said here yesterday a new paper mill at Longview, Wash., was sched uled to begin operation next May and would bring a $1,000, 000 yearly payroll into the state. Harper, who will become resi dent manager of the new hill, said the new operation would have a rated capacity of 10,000 tons a year of specialty paper and would produce glassine and greaseproof paper designed for food packaging purposes. Rhinelander Paper Co. of Wis consin and Weyerhaeuser Tim ber Co., together formed an in dependent company, the R. W. Paper Co., to operate the $7, 000,000 mill now under con struction, Harper said. Harper said about 20 families would move to Washington from Rhinelander early next year with the balance of the employ ees to be hired locally. He said the move was being made to cut freight costs on pulp now being shipped to Rhinelander from the Pacific Northwest. NEW CHIEF Tokyo-(U.R) Maj. Gen. Wil liam S. Biddle, who commanded mechanized cavalry in Europe in World War II, will become the new chief of the U. S. Mili tary Assistance Advisory Group in Japan, the U. S. Far East Command said today. JUNE 21, 1955 Dear Mr. Cr Mrs. Homemaker: ACT NOW! 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Soviet Premier To Visit India Moscow (U.R) India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Jehru an nounced today that Soviet Pre mier Nikolai Buiganin will visit India. He said np date for the visit has as yet been fixed. "People usually come to India in the winter," Nehru said. The Indian Prime Minister made his disclosure of Bulgan in's intended trip at a press con ference. He said he invited Buiganin to pay the visit and that the Soviet Premier accepted. Nehru spoke to about 75 Soviet, Indian and Western newsmen at the press conference. He also supported the posi tion of President Eisenhower that the contribution of the Gen eva Big Four heads of govern ment's conference will "not be in solving problems suddenly. It will have to be a gradual process." Brewers Get Warning On Beer Advertising Washington (U.R) The Inter nal Revenue Service has warn ed the nation's breweries to stop advertising their beer as non fattening. It also advised the brew makers to cut out talking about calories. Such advertising, it said yesterday, is likely to deceive the public. The service said it made a sur vey late last year to find out whethmer beer drinkers were being misled by advertising with the low calories theme. It said many persons inter viewed believed the advertised beer was either entirely non fattening or at least had negli gible calorie content. Some be lieved that a person could lose weight by drinking it. Pope Urges Proper Use of Movies Vatican City (U.R) Pope Pius XII today urged motion picture producers to use the "almost magical power" of films to lead man "to the realm of light, of the noble and the beautiful." The pope spoke from his gold en throne in St. Peter's Basilica to 10,000 pilgrims and Italian movie producers and stars crowded into the central nave and apse of the cathedral. The 79-year-old pontiff urged the movie producers not to make themselves "accomplices of the lower instincts and passions of man." "Respect for mankind," male or female, adult or child and "loving understanding" are basic elements in the ideal picture, the Pope said. Such a film should show the viewer ."reality, but a reality seen through the eyes of one who knows more than he." He said that censorship of films by civil and religious au thorities was needed, but it would be more desirable if the censorship came directly from the people themselves. Churchill Optimistic About World's Future ondon (U.R) Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill said today he is optimistic for the future, but warned the free world not to expect too much of next month's talks with Russia. He said the West should per severe in a' policy of peace through strength, just in case the coming Big Four conference is not "a complete and immediate success." Churchill, who has been a long time advocate of a face to face meeting with Soviet leaders in an attempt to end the cold war, spoke today at the unveiling of a bronze statue of himself in London's historic, 500-year-old Guildhall. "I don't believe that humanity is going to destroy itself," he said. "I do not feel that our generation has to be abashed before its ancestors." Portland Rooming House Burns; Residents Escape Portland (U.R) Flames in a two -story rooming house in downtown Portland early today drove occupants into the street and took firemen nearly an hour to extinguish. Firemen said the tenants' of the building escaped without in jury after fire was discovered in the bed of one of the roomers shortly after midnight. Freed Jet Fighter Ace To Thank UN Officials San Francisco (U.R) Capt. Harold E. Fischer Jr., jet fighter ace, recently released by the Chinese Communists, will thank United Nations officials today for their efforts in obtaining his free dom. 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