Word: cooney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began when the President decided to greet well-wishers after his televised news conference at Disney World. Watched by two pool reporters-William J. Eaton of the Chicago Daily News and Matthew Cooney of Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.-Nixon came to a man and a young boy in the airport crowd. As Eaton and Cooney later told it, Nixon asked the man whether he was the boy's "mother or grandmother." Apparently puzzled, the man replied, "Neither." Peering for a closer look, the President replied, "Of course not," and gave what Eaton and Cooney described as "a light slap...
Eaton, however, mentioned the "slap" to Wall Street Journal Reporter Fred L. Zimmerman and demonstrated it as a stinging blow to the cheek. Zimmerman later checked details with Cooney...
...rumors of the incident spread Cooney and Eaton were persuaded by colleagues the next day to write up a supplemental account. They prefaced it with the disclaimer that they still thought the event "insignificant." But recalling Eaton's demonstration, Zimmerman filed a story to the Journal for the issue of Monday, Nov. 19, saying that Nixon had "soundly slapped" the man's face. In a story for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, James Deakin quoted from the pool account but added a detail that he had personally learned from Cooney and Eaton: "Reporters heard...
...ultimate responsibility lies with the consumers-private collectors and museums alike. John D. Cooney, the curator of ancient art at the Cleveland Museum, ruffled his colleagues' feathers by publicly declaring earlier this month that "95% of ancient art material in this country has been smuggled." He was only voicing what is common knowledge to every curator, collector and dealer in the world...
...Cooney Weiland Award, given by the former Harvard hockey coach to the team's "unsung hero," was presented by Weiland himself to former team captain Kevin F. Hampe '73 and to William J. Corkery...