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
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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
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in Japan, the U. S. Far East
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years to six months old. He
needs to build more bedrooms on
his Staten Island house and
wants to build himself a study,
if he wins. He spends 2Vfc hours
a day commuting by bus, ferry,
and subway and loves it because
he spends the time researching.
His other time for study he
describes like this: "After the
chores are done at night, and
the children finally are out of
the way if there is no baseball,
or a good fight on TV, then I
turn to Shakespeare."
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. At ceremonies to be held in
the Fairmont Hotel, Fischer will
publicly thank Henry Cabot
Lodge Jr., chief American dele
gate to the U.N., and Dag Ham
marskjold, U.N. secretary gen
eral. The World Veterans Federa
tion is sponsoring the ceremo
nies. The federation will also
present a plaque to Lodge.
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Hong Kong Consul
Hong Kong (U.R) A U.S.
consulate official today main
tained for the third straight day
a fruitless vigil at the Chinese
Communist border for three for
mer American soldiers who ap
parently had had their fill of
Communism and wanted to go
home.
Although Peiping has given no
indication when or where the
three would emerge from China,
S. M. Backe, head of the con
sular section, again visited the
border to check on arrivals
aboard the train from Canton,
usual exit route from Red China.
The men were not aboard and
Bache returned to Hong Kong.
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