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Born. To Donald O'Connor, 32, cinema song-and-dance man (Call Me Madam), and sometime TV Starlet Gloria Noble O'Connor, 24: a daughter, their first child (his second); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Alicia. Weight...
DOMESTIC RELATIONS, by Frank O'Connor (260 pp.; Knopf; $3.50), introduces an engaging child named Larry Delaney who wants to know where babies come from. His father says that they are dropped from airplanes, while his mother explains that "mummies had an engine in their tummies and daddies had a starting handle that made it work, and once it started it went on until it made a baby." But his schoolmates convinced Larry that his mother is all wrong. Una Dwyer giggles that everyone knows babies are bought from Nurse Daly, and one boy asserts that he himself floated...
This episode from The Genius, one of the 15 short stories in Author O'Connor's new book, contains most of the ingredients that make him an accomplished reporter of the emotions: wry humor about family life, a nostalgia for childhood, an affectionately gentle treatment of the confusions between old and young. In The Duke's Children. O'Connor touches on the mythology of all the sensitive young who are convinced they must have sprung from nobler loins than those of their earthbound parents; in Fish for Friday, a man's race for the doctor...
Archaic Britons. Meantime still another ad began appearing in newspapers in U.S. cities: "Student of Anglo-American relations is anxious to know what qualities are most disliked in the British . . ." It proved to be the work of the London Daily Mirror's waspish Columnist Cassandra (William Connor), who could hardly wait to return from his vacation to see what the postman had brought. One of the papers carrying his ad, the Washington Post and Times Herald, published its own reply: "The British are archaic. They cling to worn-out practices. They profess to see virtue in . . . training for public...
...Madison Avenue." Unable to agree on whether hey liked the editorial "we," the panelists agreed that what Evans called the "hospital 'we' or the emetic 'we,' " i.e., "How do we feel this morning?", is a loathsome usage. "That," cracked Irish Author Frank O'Connor, "is the beditorial...