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Having won $8,000 a fortnight ago, Redmond O'Hanlon, New York cop and student of Shakespeare, returned to CBS-TV's The $64,000 Question and announced that he would risk his winnings for a chance at winning $16,000 and a new home for his five children. The $16,000 question: Give the full names of the two publishers of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays and the year it was published. O'Hanlon looked stunned. His wife bit her lip. After 30 seconds, the scholarly cop answered : Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount...
...week before the first show was televised, 14,000 people, hopefully eying the jackpot, had begged to be contestants. The lucky two chosen for the first show: Mrs. Thelma Bennett, a pretty housewife from Trenton, N.J. who is an expert on the movies, and Redmond O'Hanlon, a New York cop, who has five children and a wide knowledge of Shakespeare. Mrs. Bennett missed out on the $8,000 (the question: Name the Columbia movie which won almost all the 1934 Oscars, its stars and its director*), but was sent home with a nice consolation prize...
...Hanlon, hurdling the $8,000 barrier (he named the first five of the seven ages of man from Jaques' speech in As You Like it†), went home to decide whether he will try this week...
...opening show, the network, sponsor (Revlon) and producer of The $64,000 Question were swamped with phone calls and telegrams by eager people who thought they might be able to give enough correct answers to come home with at least a Cadillac. More swamped, however, was O'Hanlon, whose doorbell and telephone never seemed to stop ringing. Free advice was being handed out lavishly. Some urged him to shoot the $8,000; others pleaded with him to be satisfied with what...
Indianapolis Speedway Classic (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Highlights reported by Tom Hanlon...