Four Years' Pay

To Redmond O'Hanlon, 39, New York City cop and Shakespeare scholar, $16,000 represents four years' pay--or a new home for his family of five children. Last week O'Hanlon faced the decision of his life. Should he take the $16,000 he had won the two previous weeks on the CBS-TV show The $64,000 Question? Or should he let the money ride on another question about Shakespeare for $32,000? Appearing on the show for the third consecutive week, the good-looking, gun-toting scholar disclosed that an overwhelming 90% of his big fan mail begged him to take the $16,000. But fellow cops and newsmen, impressed with his knowledge of Shakespeare, urged him to risk four years' pay for eight. His decision? O'Hanlon admitted that "on one side is the egotism of a scholar; on the other side is the conservatism of a father." Then he heaved a sigh and added. "I have decided to take the $16,000." The studio audience exploded into wild applause. O'Hanlon's wife beamed. Soon after, O'Hanlon left the studio, wife on his arm, and a $16,000 certified check in hand.

With O'Hanlon gone, a Camp Hill (Pa.) grandmother and Bible student, Mrs. Catherine E. Kreitzer, kept alive the suspense of The $64,000 Question. She got by the $8,000 question by naming in order the Aramaic words in the "handwriting on the wall" at Belshazzar's feast ("mene, mene, tekel, upharsin"). Mrs. Kreitzer will decide this week whether she will go for the $16,000 question.

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