Word: prajadhipok
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Wishing to hear native music and reports while dark closeted after his eye operation, King Prajadhipok conferred with Philadelphia's Norden Hauck Radio Co. about a receiving set (similar to his Bangkok receiver) capable of picking up Siam from New York. He was told only one man, radio enthusiastic Roy C. Cool of Morristown, N. J. had invested in such a set and had it in working order. The company forthwith negotiated; Mr. Cool gladly loaned. After much painstaking dial twiddling by a Norden Hauck expert, a Bangkok orchestra blared forth...
What time royalty from Japan was viewing with disappointment the mighty cataract of Niagara (see p. 24), Mrs. William Korker, anesthetist, squirted cocaine into the beady left eye of small King Prajadhipok as he reclined in an improvised operating room at Ophir Hall. Then Dr. John Martin Wheeler went to work with tiny instruments and extracted the cataract (clouded crystalline lens) that caused His Majesty's U. S. visit. Soon the King cried gladly: "I see light...
Cinemactress Mary Pickford motored out from Manhattan to Ophir Hall in Purchase, N. Y. to pay a call on H. M. King Prajadhipok, At the gates she said: "My face is my only identification card...
...three principal visitors at the White House last week were King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni of Siam and Bryan Untiedt, 13-year-old hero of last month's Colorado blizzard (TIME, April 6, 13). The ailing little King, first absolute monarch ever to cross the Executive Mansion's threshold, called on President Hoover at 10:15 one morning, hurried back to his quarters to receive the President at n, then spent the afternoon in a dentist's office. After a state dinner at the White House that evening, during which Master Untiedt was permitted to peep...
Smilingly, though he was ill and coughing, 98-lb. King Prajadhipok took leave of his Canadian guard, strapping "Mounties" in red coats and wide he-hats. As they climbed down from the train, U. S. secret service guards climbed up, followed by a dapper group of men whom Portal had been eying somewhat askance-State Department officials in dress suits and capes, led by Richard Southgate, acting chief of the Division of International Conferences & Protocol...