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They gave him a son (TIME, March 23). Sir Hari, who had bet rich friends that they would, collected big winnings. Last week despatches told how he has spent $300,000 on a "Nazar Durbar" to celebrate the babe's birth. In addition to paying for prayer fests and food fests...
...babe to honour...
...increased height and weight of the Japanese boy and girl is due a great deal to the introduction of baseball and other Western sports. The young Japanese of today is on the average an inch taller and six pounds heavier than was the case 30 years ago. . . . Miyatake, the Babe Ruth of Japan, who pitches for Keio University, is 5 ft. 11 in. tall...
Just as the last King of Siam lay dying his only child was born. Had the babe been a boy and born a few hours later it would have been "born a king" like Spain's Alfonso XIII. Had the dying monarch been polygamous he might have had a son long before...
...babe turned out to be a girl. The Crown passed to Prajadhipok (brother). Today, since his monogamous Majesty has no son, the heir is his brother, Prince Paribatra of Nagor Svara...