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...portrait busts of Prince Edward, John D. Rockefeller and the abdicated King of Siam (who posed for him a full week) caused town talk. But of all his exhibited pieces, the one that attracted most attention was the gaunt candelabrum he had taken with him out of Germany. Last week British art-lovers bought it for a niche in Westminster Abbey. Said gratified Sculptor Elkan: "This is my greatest honor...
...Nominated Hugh Gladney Grant, of Alabama Minister to Thailand (Siam...
Royal sportsmen and sportswomen skated on well-frozen ice in Sweden, Holland, Switzerland (see cuts). King Ananda, 14, monarch of Thailand (formerly Siam), played shinny with his brother, Prince Pumipol, on a Swiss lake. On a canal in The Hague, Princess Juliana wobbled on old-fangled Dutch curl-tipped skates with the Baroness Van Asbeck. Out on the pool before Drottningholm Castle near Stockholm slid Prince Gustaf Adolf, eldest son of the Swedish Crown Prince, with his sprawling little daughters, Princesses Margaretha and Birgitta...
Exorcised. Prince Tejansakti of Thai (formerly Siam), 5 weeks old; of evil spirits; in Virginia Water, Surrey, England, where his family and retinue are in comfortable exile. In a wordless, 1,000-year-old ceremony, Grandfather Prajadhipok (who abdicated the Siamese throne in 1935) and 20 guests made passes over little Prince Tejansakti's body with cords to trap the evil spirits, which were then burned with the cords. King Prajadhipok snipped a lock of hair from the baby's head, wrapped it in lotus leaves, set it afloat down the river. Finally, Grandfather Prajadhipok sprinkled holy water...
...Commissioner to the Philippines, President Roosevelt last week made a nonpolitical, career appointment. He named Woodrow Wilson's scholarly, rufous son-in-law, Assistant Secretary of State Francis Bowes Sayre, 54. Criminal law was Professor Sayre's course at Harvard Law School. Counseling King Rama VI of Siam on foreign relations (1923-25) gave him grounding in Oriental affairs, King Rama called him "Phya Kalyam Maitri" (The Beautiful in Friendship). Lately he has worked with Secretary Hull on reciprocal trade treaties, with Senator Tydings on the act to cushion the Philippines' severance from...