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...spring Phibun entered Bangkok's municipal kite flying contest. To Siamese, this was a perfectly plain sign that he was coming out of political retirement. His personal astrologer, Chalaem, had found that Phibun's stars indicated rising power from March 26 onward. Phibun opened his pine-shaded bungalow in Bangkok's suburbs. There he told the press: "I was fed up with retirement, so I bought kites. But kite flying is not so interesting as politics. ... I am forming a new party with the slogan, 'Right Is Might...
...even get to it on the railroad. Nellie reminded him that they had come West from Indiana by ox-wagon. "All the place needs is comfortable accommodations and good food," she said. "The auto roads will follow." Nellie went to Palm Springs and bought 1¼ acres and a bungalow on the lee (east) side of San Jacinto for $5,000. She set up a tent for herself, rented the three bedrooms in the house to guests, usually folks with tuberculosis or asthma. Gradually she expanded the house, but it took her until 1919 to show her first profit...
Surrealist Salvador Dali, a realist about his worldly goods, called the cops to report that his seaside bungalow at Pebble Beach, Calif. had been ransacked. Missing: several suitcase loads of silver, jewelry, furs. Ignored by the burglars: all of Dali's crutch-&-limp-watch paintings...
...Vice President Sam Pryor ("a very close and gratifying friendship"). Yes, he had accepted a couple of Pan Am airplane rides-once when he was traveling on Senate business about the airline bill, once when he went down to Sam Pryor's "very modest bungalow-type house" at Florida's Kobe Sound, "in Senator Pepper's area." (Snorted Democrat Pepper, a committee member, "The kind of people who live [there] don't usually vote...
...Satterthwaite mission arrived at its destination after a train-car-horseback-and-foot journey, which involved crossing two mountain passes, 7,200 and 7,700 feet high. In Kathmandu they found a two-storied bungalow awaiting their occupancy, together with gifts including venison, fowls and fruits from the Maharaja. Their guest house, as well as various durbar halls, were decorated with the Nepalese flag (a double red pennant on which is inscribed a sun and moon), flying beside the Stars & Stripes which had only 13 stars...