Word: mahidol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon came to call Karim." Indeed, the Harvard Yard has seen many princes come and go, without fuss, sometimes even without remembering them. In 1912 Prince Jaisinh Rao, son of the Gaekwar of Baroda, got a Harvard bachelor's degree, and in 1928 Prince Somdet Chao Fa Mahidol won his M.D. from the Harvard medical school. It was while the prince was a student at Harvard that his son, Phumiphon Aduldet, the present King of Thailand, was born in Cambridge-perhaps the only king born in the U.S. But these are recorded facts, nothing more. The legends...
...killed King Ananda Mahidol? For close to nine years, Siamese have asked the question-privately, over the tinkle of thousands of teacups; publicly, in one of the longest murder hearings in history...
...from Brookline. Phumiphon had been born in 1927 in a Cambridge hospital while his father, Prince Mahidol, half-brother of Prajadhipok,* studied medicine at Harvard. The first years of Phumiphon's life were spent in the suburban atmosphere of Brookline, Mass. A few years later, after his father's death, he had moved with his mother, sister, and elder brother Ananda to Lausanne, Switzerland. Six years after that childless King Prajadhipok abdicated in favor of his nephew Ananda...
...marched and countermarched in rehearsal, while their fellows joined hands to hold back imaginary crowds pressing forward from the sidewalks. On the parade grounds near by, carpenters worked hard to complete the wooden tower that would serve late this month as a funeral pyre for the late King Ananda Mahidol who died of a mysterious pistol shot on June...