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When he got a call one day last week that his 94-year-old mother was gravely ill, Harry Truman hopped into the presidential plane and flew to her home in Grandview, Mo. It was his fifth visit with her since she had broken her hip in a fall last February. This week, as she wavered, he was at her side...
...Saturday he entertained Lord & Lady Halifax at lunch. At 6:15 a.m. Sunday, he boarded the Sacred Cow for a Mother's Day trip to Grandview, Mo., there to receive some pleasant news to top a pleasant week. After a setback, his 94-year-old mother was recovering satisfactorily from her hip fracture. He returned to Washington the same day, much relieved...
Ever since his trip to Mexico, Harry Truman had been waiting for another chance to visit his 94-year-old mother, bedridden in Grandview, Mo. with a broken hip. Last week, to celebrate the beginning of his third year in office, he made a flying trip home...
...President had been worried about his mother, 94-year-old Mrs. 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...
Reassured, the President drove into Kansas City and spent the night at the Hotel Muehlebach. Next morning he was up at 5:45 for a stroll through the city's dark streets. After breakfast he drove out to Grandview again. At 2 p.m. he took off for Washington. He had another family duty ahead-a party for Daughter Margaret, who will be 23 this week...