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Heaven watched over Dr. Coffin through India, the Philippines, China, Siam and Egypt. In 15 cities he delivered all or part of his series of five lectures on "The Self-Disclosure of God in History" -sometimes through interpreters, sometimes (as in Lahore) with History's riotous sound effects running him competition. He and equally energetic Mrs. Coffin endured a schedule that sometimes called for three or four lectures and two banquets a day; 36-hour journeys in dirty train coaches; chancy bucket-seat rides in rickety aircraft. On one occasion, engine trouble brought Dr. Coffin's plane down...
...cinema. It was a premiere to rival any in Hollywood, and the audience of Bangkok's elite, many of whom arrived in shiny new Dodges and Buicks, were full of expectancy as they settled in their seats to watch the movie version of Anna and the King of Siam...
...Sanuk dee" (very entertaining), was the audience's judgment on the movie, as a movie. The only man in Siam capable of giving an absolute verdict on its accuracy was unable to attend. Just as the movie began, the Bangkok radio took the air to announce that death, after hovering long near his hilltop suburban home, had come at last to scholarly, slim, 84-year-old Prince Naris (pronounced Nar-ritt), 62nd child and last surviving son of the movie's hero, King Mongkut...
...static point," says Hall. In the 1920s he became director of finance to the Persian Government, lived the life of Reilly in a sumptuous villa, explored the wildernesses of Turkestan, Northern India and Iraq. Later he became a vice president of Curtiss-Wright, displayed company planes in Europe, Siam, Turkey and China. In World War II, he became a colonel in the Ninth Air Force, fought at Cassino and Anzio, was shot through the leg in the invasion of Normandy...
Died. General Phya Phahon Phon Phayuhasena, 60, moonfaced, swashbuckling onetime strong man of Siam, leader of the 1933 coup d'etat which eventually resulted in the abdication of the late King Prajadhipok, for five years premier and dictator, briefly in 1941 a yellow-robed, Buddhist beggar-monk; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bangkok...