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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...
...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...
...matter what everyone else was saying about the Met's million-dollar Greek vase (TIME, March 5), John D. Cooney, curator of ancient art at the prestigious Cleveland Museum, had his own outspoken opinions. Were the Metropolitan Museum and Thomas Having in the wrong to pick up the 2,500-year-old krater that may have been bootlegged out of Italy? "Ninety-five percent of ancient art material in this country has been smuggled in," Cooney said. "If the museums began to send back all the smuggled material to their countries of origin, the museum walls would be bare...