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...loving king (he sold five songs to a Broadway musical show now in rehearsal) lifted a nine-tiered crown onto his head as army & navy guns fired 101 salutes and the temple bells of every monastery in his kingdom rang seven times. He thus became Rama IX, King of Siam...
...nation in the troubled islands (TIME, Nov. 14 et seq.). He liked the young, eager, inexperienced Republican leaders, thought they had a fair chance of establishing orderly government amid the ruins of colonial rule and the wreckage of war. After several months in Hong Kong and Siam, he went back to Indonesia to see how the new republic was getting...
Honeymooning this week (see MILESTONES), Siam's music-writing King Phumiphon finally sold five royal compositions (Dream of Love, Falling Rain, 'Tis Sundown, Blue Night and an instrumental interlude) to Michael Todd's Peep Show, a Broadway musical now in production. At first fearful that having part in a Broadway show might impair his royal dignity, Phumiphon was won over when Todd pointed out that Margaret Truman is also a professional musician...
Married. King Phumiphon of Siam, 22, Boston-born, saxophone-tootling King of Siam; and Princess Sirikit Kitiyakara, 17, his distant royal cousin; in Bangkok (see PEOPLE...
...readers of your Siam cover story [TIME, April 3] who are also acquainted with the internal affairs and foreign policy of the lands visited by the late Dr. Lemuel Gulliver, the similarity of names between the hierarchy of Siamese princes and politicians on the one hand, and the movers & shakers of the Lilliputian empire on the other, is almost irresistible. There is a close parallelism between Phibun Songgram, in-&-outer and erstwhile Jap collaborator, and Admiral Skyresh Bolgolam, whose undying enmity Gulliver incurred; between Pridhi Banomyong and Reldresal, Lilliputian Secretary for Private Affairs, friend and champion of the Man-Mountain...