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James Johnson Sweeney has been director of Houston's Museum of Fine Arts for two years, five months and four days. That is perhaps two years longer than some of his former colleagues in Manhattan-recalling how he stomped out of his job at the Guggenheim Museum-would have predicted. Expectably, he has stirred things up, but aside from having to display some Remington cowboy art that he loathes...
...keeping with its big-city status, Houston has acquired the appurtenances of a modern U.S. metropolis, from big-league baseball and big-league football (the Houston Oilers. 1960 and 1961 champs of the American Football League) to a Museum of Fine Arts headed by James Johnson Sweeney, and a symphony orchestra whose current conductor is Sir John Barbirolli. But the city has not lost its frontier character. "There is freedom of movement here that I have not seen anywhere else," says a recent arrival. Says a Houston oil executive, aglow with civic pride:."This is the last frontier...
...Virginia is really like turned out to be six beat-up boards and the wreck of a screen door frame, with a man and a moon scrawled on them. So thought Joe F. Moss, 30, University of West Virginia art instructor, who constructed West Virginia Moon, and James Johnson Sweeney, director of Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, who judged the competition...
Cried the scandalized Huntington Herald-Advertiser: "Tourism may have been dealt a body blow." Sidestepped Governor William W. Barron: "I'd better let the experts comment on it." Commented Expert Sweeney: "I picked what I liked best." Philosophized Painter-Carpenter Moss: "It isn't anything intended to be uncomplimentary. It looks complimentary, maybe...
They were gone the instant they came-a brace of Air Force RF-101 jets screeching 200 ft. above Florida's Homestead Air Force Base. On the reviewing stand, President Kennedy turned to General Walter Sweeney, commander of the Tactical Air Command, and asked: "They wouldn't have been able to shoot down those ships at that speed and altitude, would they?" The general said no. Said Kennedy: "I'd like to see them again." And so the reconnaissance jets once more simulated the flights that had helped document the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba...