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Cambridge city councillor Cornelia Wheeler, present at the meeting, said she felt "much enthusiasm" for the plan, and criticized the Harvard Businessmen's Association for what she called its "apathetic, content" attitude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Plan Would Put Paths in Air | 10/27/1969 | See Source »

Councillors Thomas H. Mahoney, Barbara W. Ackermann, and Cornelia B. Wheeler will also ask the Council to request that the State legislature permit the City to enact a rent control...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: City Councillors Seek 'Opinion' Vote on Rent | 10/6/1969 | See Source »

Except for landscaping (Erpf envisions a backdrop of "melancholy trees"), the structure is now virtually complete. Erpf's three-year-old daughter, Cornelia, wanders about the maze and Erpf has made it to the center in five minutes. For the uninitiate, mastering the maze can take half an hour of trial and error. Ayrton has provided no printed explanation or map to the solution. "If a person could walk in and figure it out," he explains, "I would feel I had failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aesthetics: Knossos in the Catskills | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

Councillors Alfred E. Vellucci and Cornelia B. Wheeler voted present on the resolution. "I cannot vote for any resolution congratulating President Pusey," Vellucci said. "I don't think the police want to be congratulated. They don't like to see these things happen. The police got sick when they were ordered to go there because they knew what would happen...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Councillors Vote Praise of Pusey For Police Raid | 4/29/1969 | See Source »

...voice was purest Greenpoint gravel and her visage was forever screwed into the city dweller's skeptical query: "Who ya' tryin' to kid, buster?" She began her career, as she once put it, on the road as "an obnoxious child actress-the poor man's Cornelia. Otis Skinner." She married in 1927 and settled into domesticity, but in 1946 resumed her career in Miracle on 34th Street, portraying an irate mother haranguing a Macy's Santa Claus. Her sad face and sagging form soon became familiar screen fixtures. She was nominated for an Oscar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

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