Music: 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,...