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...Martha Ellen Truman, ever since she had fallen and broken her hip three weeks ago (TIME, Feb. 24). He had hurried to her bungalow in Grandview, Mo. immediately after the accident, had telephoned every day after he got back to Washington. Last week, flying west in the Sacred Cow on the first lap of his trip to Mexico City (see above'), he was about to see her again, but he still seemed vaguely restless. As the morning wore on he picked up the radio telephone in the plane, called her house, talked over the drone of engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How Are You, Mamma? | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...difference in northern Mexico's prosperity. Last week, while the U.S. Congress shoved through bills for veterinary help in stamping out Mexico's aftosa, Mexicans awaited the man who would have to take action. El Universal ran a cartoon of the President arriving in his "Sacred Cow"-"one cow that is not afraid to move around these days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Visitor | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...serious accident for a woman of 94-though Mrs. Truman has survived two fractures of the left hip and one of the shoulder in the last six years. At 7:45 the next morning Harry Truman took off from Washington in the Sacred Cow.* Five hours later he was in his mother's bedroom, a box full of flowers in his arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Blue-Plate Special | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Punk & Railroad. Out where Bob Young was born, in the Texas Panhandle, the Social Register doesn't mean a thing. His father was a well-fixed cattleman, banker and hotel proprietor in the little cow town of Canadian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Galahad on Wheels | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...time it wanted to. When Matty Fox began dickering a month ago, it looked as if the time had come. Hence United World got the library almost for nothing: $600,000, to be paid over a ten-year period. Gloated Matty Fox: "We'll pay for this cow out of its milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Frog | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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