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DIED. THOMAS CONNOR, 91, last surviving member of the fbi squad that gunned down Public Enemy No. 1, John Dillinger, in 1934; in Southbury, Connecticut. A minor bureau clerk whose on-the-diamond skills got noticed by baseball fanatic J. Edgar Hoover, Connor was drafted as a special agent, and ended up stationed in a Chicago alley during Dillinger's final and fatal showdown...
...ARDEN O'CONNOR '00 was planning a special study break in her room with a tropical theme when things got a little carried away. Part of the tropical motif was a large kiddie pool filled with inflatable toys and candy. While filling the pool O'Connor spilled a large trash can filled with water in the Matthews fourth floor bathroom, flooding the entire bathroom with several inches of water. Her entry was not amused...
...roommate woke me up and there was smoke covering the entire ceiling of the hallway, probably to head level," said Katherine M. O'Connor '99, who lives in Gilbert 405 and was able to exit by the stairs...
...When they finally got the windows up you could see huge clouds of smoke coming out of the room," O'Connor said...
These stories make clear what the longer expanses of his novels tend to obscure: Stone is, for all the glittery bleakness of his plots and settings, at heart a metaphysical writer, intensely interested--as was Flannery O'Connor--in the fate of people who cannot find a reason for their existence. The husband in Helping who falls off the wagon tries to defend himself by attacking his religious wife: "Sometimes I try to imagine what it's like to believe that the sky is full of care and concern." The remark wounds, as intended, but the speaker...