Word: phumiphon
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...Great God on My Head Phumiphon Adundet,* the Power Coming from the Strength of the Earth, at long last stepped ashore from the flagship Sri Ayuthia onto Siamese soil, every temple bell in the land rang out a greeting...
...Grinning. TIME Correspondent John Stanton cabled the following report of Phumiphon's return...
...Then Phumiphon got into his Daimler and drove back to the palace, where he had another shower. What he thought of it all, none knew. Perhaps he shared the skepticism of his cousin, Prince Chumphot, who had officiated at a similar ceremony during the previous week. At its conclusion, Prince Chumphot had turned to a Western guest and said: 'I'm interested to know what you make of all this. Traditional, of course, you know. But pure superstition...
Most important was Phumiphon's coronation. Then, too, five royal relatives besides his brother had died, and only a King could light their pyres. And if everything went well there was to be a royal wedding into the bargain...
Last week gangling, spectacled Phumiphon was on the Red Sea in the steamship Selandia, with his pretty fiancée, 17-year-old Siamese Princess Sirikit Kitiyakara at his side. In Bangkok's downtown dance halls, where Siam's hepcats curve their fingers backward and dance the rumwong, the hit of the week was a song composed by the royal jitterbug Phumiphon himself...