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...Prince Nondiyavat Svasti, younger brother of Siam's small Queen Rambai Barni, was graduated from Georgetown University. From Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.) was graduated Paul All-man Siple, Erie Boy Scout who accompanied the Byrd expedition to the South Pole in 1930. At Germantown Academy (Pa.), Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy Jr., son of the Athletics' famed manager, won the Robert E. Lamberton Medal for the best record in athletics (baseball, basketball, football) and scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Term's End (Cont'd) | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

Minuscule King Prajadhipok in a white dress uniform, the sunlight gleaming from his new spectacles, stood on the bridge, beside pretty little Queen Rambai Barni. Glittering with decorations, a delegation of relations and officials were waiting under a red-&-green lacquer pagoda. Not a sound came from the crowds on the shore until family greetings were over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Opened Eyes | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...last week. The pipers shrilled and wheezed ''The Campbells Are Coming," but behind the King came Rear Admiral Thavara Chayant, royal physician, Siamese Minister to the U. S. Prince Amoradat Kridakara and two inspectors of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In a motor car came Queen Rambai and the royal suite. They arrived at a large field. King Prajadhipok (incognito as Prince Sukhodaya) ran St. Andrew's flag up a tall flagpole and opened formally the fifth annual Highland Gathering and Scottish Music Festival, under the patronage of Edward Prince of Wales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: At Banff | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

Prince Svasti, gracious, Westernized father of Queen Rambai Barni of Siam, went to a performance of The Green Pastures in Manhattan. Entering the theatre he spied a poor man and his wife who held a small baby in her arms. Prince Svasti stopped to admire the child, offered the man a roll of money. At first the man refused. Then he broke down, told the Prince that he had three more children, that he was jobless, about to be evicted from his home. When a crowd gathered, Prince Svasti took up a collection, persuaded the indigent pair to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 22, 1931 | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...recognizably (they are carried over regular telephone wires) but the image on the little screen is uncertain, like a snapshot taken out of focus. Weirdly this snapshot rolls its unfocused eyes and moves its puffy lips. Celebrities who have telephoned their pictures and voices include King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni of Siam, who chattered in their own language, and Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, who said: "Why, if you linked up the important U. S. cities with this thing you would get enough business from the banks alone to make money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Television | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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