Tom Carson, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Hartford, declined to comment.

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He barely mentions a New Yorker series written towards the end of his life: long profiles of vivid characters he admired, such as Mel Brooks, Johnny Carson, Ralph Richardson and Tom Stoppard.

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