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...Taking aloft the first women guests ever to ride in a Navy airship, Queen Rambai Barni of Siam and two companions...
What happened was that, while slim King Prajadhipok and curvesome Queen Rambai Barni were disporting themselves at their seaside palace of Huahin last week, Siamese officers suddenly pounced on other members of the royal family and locked them up for the night in His Majesty's marble and uncomfortable Throne Hall. One of Siam's war boats was sent to the King, bearing what His Majesty chose to call an "ultimatum" and at once "graciously accepted" adding "what the People's Party have done is quite right!" Boarding a special train, the King & Queen returned amid cheers to Bangkok. Everyone...
...Prince Nondiyavat Svasti, younger brother of Siam's small Queen Rambai Barni, was graduated from Georgetown University. From Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.) was graduated Paul All-man Siple, Erie Boy Scout who accompanied the Byrd expedition to the South Pole in 1930. At Germantown Academy (Pa.), Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy Jr., son of the Athletics' famed manager, won the Robert E. Lamberton Medal for the best record in athletics (baseball, basketball, football) and scholarship...
Minuscule King Prajadhipok in a white dress uniform, the sunlight gleaming from his new spectacles, stood on the bridge, beside pretty little Queen Rambai Barni. Glittering with decorations, a delegation of relations and officials were waiting under a red-&-green lacquer pagoda. Not a sound came from the crowds on the shore until family greetings were over...
Prince Svasti, gracious, Westernized father of Queen Rambai Barni of Siam, went to a performance of The Green Pastures in Manhattan. Entering the theatre he spied a poor man and his wife who held a small baby in her arms. Prince Svasti stopped to admire the child, offered the man a roll of money. At first the man refused. Then he broke down, told the Prince that he had three more children, that he was jobless, about to be evicted from his home. When a crowd gathered, Prince Svasti took up a collection, persuaded the indigent pair to accept...