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...tugboat Sprague, known for 45 years from one end of the Mississippi to the other as "Big Mamma," the "shovingest" boat on the river, was on the banks and waiting for the wrecker. One of the last of the sternwheelers, she could handle 19 oil barges-the equivalent of a tank-car train ten miles long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Dec. 29, 1947 | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

Fortnight ago, when Rumania's Communist-eclipsed young (26) King Michael and his handsome mamma, Queen Helen, flew to London for Cousin Elizabeth's wedding, he was asked if he intended to return to Bucharest. Said he: "I have heard these reports...They are not true. I have my responsibility and I intend to meet it." He said he would fly back Nov. 23. Last week the deadline passed, and Michael stayed on in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Displaced Person | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Levy, who is married to one of the Andrews sisters, is the man who launched such Tin Pan Alley successes as Beat Me Daddy and Scrub Me Mamma. Said he: "Look, Mr. Stravinsky, I would not like to write a chapter in my book about you -a book called You've Got to Die Before You Write Popular Songs." At first Stravinsky didn't get it. Then Levy reminded him of what Tin Pan Alley grave robbers had done to Tchaikovsky and Chopin. Why shouldn't Stravinsky steal from his own Firebird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stravinsky in Tin Pan Alley | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Both the President and his mother brightened as he tramped into her front bedroom. She was sitting up in bed. He beamed, kissed her heartily, said, "How are you, mamma?" He gave her his presents-he had a box of flowers under his arm, and two dozen red roses from Mexico's Ambassador Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros in his hand. Then he sat down in a chair to hear the news...

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

...have helped mamma to steal a little kiddy from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pooh to a Callow Throstle | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

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