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When Picasso's 5,000-lb. array of bronze Bathers arrived in Houston last week. Museum of Fine Arts Director James Johnson Sweeney took an anxious look around the museum's Mies van der Rohe-designed Cullinan Hall, wondering where to put them. Then Sweeney, who used to run various museums on the East Coast, recalled that he was in Texas and quickly built a swimming pool for The Bathers' ponderous plunge...
...Picasso's lady diver stands poised and suspenseful on a sturdy diving board, a child bather lurks in water up to his chest, and the four remaining figures idle at poolside. like beach bums anywhere. Houston's museumgoers were sufficiently startled to pronounce the whole exhibition "Sweeney's Swimming Hole." but the Houston Chronicle was impressed: "It would seem." the paper said, "that for the first time the challenge of the hall's proportions has been met with sculptures of the perfect heroic dimensions...
...proof of this could be seen last week at a tastefully selected Derain show in the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston. The show was the first big thing for James Johnson Sweeney since he was appointed director last January after angrily resigning from Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. Sweeney stuck to Derain's pre-World War I output, but even with the span thus limited, one fact about Derain comes through. Only seemingly did Derain belong with his contemporaries; essentially he was a traditionalist. In the words of Jean Cassou. curator of the Museum of Modern...
...Americans were indeed preparing for any eventuality. After years of being treated with tolerant amusement, Civil Defense officials suddenly found themselves in demand. When the supply of booklets on civil defense ran out in Atlanta, the Constitution published a full page of excerpts. In Boston, Civil Defense Director Charles Sweeney-who as a World War II pilot dropped the A-bomb on Nagasaki-estimated inquiries were "up 1,000%." A Los Angeles bombshelter builder reported: "Now we have to screen the moderately serious inquiries from the damned serious inquiries...
...small hostelry that his father owned, in downtown Springfield, Mass., on July 7, 1917-six weeks after John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born, 75 miles across the state and a world apart, in his father's big home in Brookline. Both Lawrence O'Brien Sr. and Myra Sweeney O'Brien were immigrants from County Cork. Myra was a proud, slender woman and a talented cook-her clam chowder, beef stew and soda bread were locally celebrated-who had worked as a domestic before her marriage. O'Brien Sr. was a scrappy redhead, and an up-and-coming...