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Tootling into Thailand to liven up the U.S. exhibit at an international fair, Bandleader Benny Goodman and his 14 musicians were soon summoned to Bangkok's royal palace for a command performance. For an hour, as King Phumiphon, 29, himself both a jazzy hornblower and composer (Blue Night), and Queen Sirikit tapped in tempo, Goodman and his men swung out such tunes as On the Sunny Side of the Street and a royalty-requested Lazy River. The King then gave each member of Goodman & Co. a crested silver cigarette case, was in turn presented with a handsome clarinet. That...
Having foregone his songwriting, saxophone-tootling and other worldly pleasures for 15 days, Thailand's young (28) King Phumiphon Adundet this week wound up his term as a Buddhist monk (TIME, Sept. 24). In keeping with the royal tradition that a Thai king should spend some time as a priest (like any devout male commoner). Phumiphon, saffron-robed, barefoot and shaven-pated, had turned his kingdom into the hands of Queen Sirikit, 24, who acted as regent during the King's religious furlough...
...Born. To Phumiphon ("Strength of Earth") Adundet, 28, Massachusetts-born King of Thailand and Queen Sirikit ("Famed for Beauty"), 23: their third child, second daughter; in Bangkok...
Into the Interior. Then, one day in 1939, her luck changed. The blind Princess Puangmas-Phaka Diskul. cousin of the future King Phumiphon, heard about her work, asked to be admitted to the school. Soon other pupils came, and by the time the war broke out. her school was so well established that the Japanese invaders were persuaded to let it continue. When the bombs began to fall on Bangkok she gathered her pupils together and moved the school into the interior. After V-J day she led her doughty band of students back to the capital and took...
...morning of June 9. 1946, the young King (elder brother of the present popular, jazz-composing King Phumiphon Adundet) was found in his bed with a bullet hole through his forehead and a .45 near his hand. Soon afterward, the then Premier, Pridi Phanomyong. announced that the King had killed himself accidentally...