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Boston Record columnist Dave Egan '23, yesterday lashed out at Ivy League football, claiming that it "bilks" the public. He followed up his remarks on the league with a blast against "Harvard's fraudulent football...
...cash. On NBC's The Big Surprise, Rear Admiral Redfield Mason, U.S.N., 51, on active duty at Brooklyn's Navy Yard, broke through for the top award of $100,000 by naming six groups of women from Greek and Roman fables. And William and James Egan, a pair of outsized* lawyers from Hartford, Conn., were poised only a step away from the jackpot of CBS's The $64,000 Question...
...Egan brothers became quiz stars because Bachelor William got mad at Garry Moore: "I was watching I've Got a Secret one night, and the man's secret was that his great-grandfather had constructed the first U.S. bathtub. I said to my mother that the man was mistaken." Bill wrote Garry Moore a caustic letter pointing out that all his facts about the first bathtub were based on a famed newspaper hoax written in 1917 by H. L. Mencken. Garry Moore never answered...
...Egan got his education at Hartford's Trinity College, Harvard and Oxford on scholarships. He began reading during the Depression because "it was the cheapest pleasure around." He hopes to come out of the show with enough money to take his wife to Europe on his first vacation in five years. Jim was recently appointed police court prosecutor in Hart ford. Bill works for the state tax commis sion. With these jobs and their private law practice, they have a combined yearly income of about $30,000. But there are many lean years behind them...
When the girl's husband (Cameron Mitchell), a got-rich peckerhead, finds out about that hotel visit, he ravishes his wife, just to even the score. Next day behind a sand dune, Egan has a "soul-shaking experience" with the lady, but Mitchell is victorious in the end. He tells his wife that if she leaves him, she must also leave the old plantation. In the book the plantation was no more than a makeweight for the whole way of life it implied. In the picture it merely looks as if she loves her fun, but oh, that real...