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...Siam's incredible cheerfulness did not stop at Bangkok. It spread across the whole funnel-shaped country of 18 million people-to the farmers slogging behind lumbering carabao in the knee-deep water of the rice paddies, and to the tappers working their way down long, slanting rows of rubber trees...
...Dwarf was a five-foot Chinese gunman who had been arrested 15 months ago with 18 others for hijacking a $2,000,000 shipment of gold on its way to Bangkok's Don Muang airport. Now he was out on bail while the case dragged on in Siam's slowpoke courts. So was another chief suspect, a husky retired police captain named Pramote Prathuengphong. The two thieves, it seemed, had fallen...
...SIAM DOCTOR (255 pp.)-Jacques M. May-Doubleday...
Surgeon May did his persuasive best. But Siam Doctor is no trumpet call to noble deeds; it is largely a winking kaleidoscope of Oriental reminiscences, studded with startling clinical notes. Dr. May found that just as tropical forests outgrow and outbloom Western vegetation, so do some diseases in the tropics flourish with a luxuriance that amounts to melodrama. An ovarian cyst, Annamite-style, has been known to weigh more than the half-starved body in which it grew. Hernias often achieve a size "so gigantic as to have lost all possibilities of residence inside the abdomen...
Shortly thereafter copies are on their way from our Tokyo presses by plane to the dropoff points for distribution to readers like India's Pandit Nehru and Industrialists N. H. Tata and G. D. Birla; to Shanghai Mayor K. C. Wu, Siam Premier Phibun Songgram, Oilman B. C. Jones in Dili, Portuguese Timor, 23 subscribers in Zamboanga, one in Tibet; to William Eu (Singapore), Jan de Groot (Batavia), and thousands of other plain citizens...