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Three years later, Barbara came through. From Bangkok, Siam, where he had chased her, Alexis Mdivani, a polo-playing princeling of the marrying Mdivanis of Georgia, Russia, announced that Barbara had finally consented to marry him. This was real news in anybody's paper. It got better when the prince relinquished any future claim to Barbara's fortune, having first received $1,000,000 from her. Then he married her in Byzantine splendor in Paris' Russian Orthodox Church. Hiring half a deck of an ocean liner, they set off for a round-the-world honeymoon...
...Zoologist Herbert Spencer Jennings is another Johns Hopkins notable who is retiring this year because of age. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, who achieved his greatest newspaper fame as the eye surgeon of Siam's ex-King Pradhjadipok, retired unwillingly in 1934, died a few-months after...
India, at Karachi and Calcutta. Here the traveler will don his linen suit and silk shirt before taking off for humid Bangkok, Siam, the transfer point for Imperial Airways' shuttle service to Hong Kong. Sixth night he sleeps at Singapore, where Quantas (Queensland and Northern Territory Services) Empire Airways Ltd. takes over the rest of his journey. Seventh night is spent at Rambang, Dutch East Indies, eighth at Longreach, Australia. Ninth day the traveler, his all-British 13,000-mile flight completed, is landed in Brisbane, busy capital of Queensland. The long trip will cost...
After China, prophesies Price, comes inevitable Japanese domination of the Philippines, Siam, Dutch East Indies, Australia, New Zealand, the African west coast. Having enumerated his reasons why Japan cannot lose and the U. S. cannot win in the Orient, Author Price suggests that the U. S. "retire gracefully." His alternative suggestion is that the U. S. hereafter do business exclusively with Japan...
Included in the foreign representation are: Japan, Philippines, India, Turkey, Mexico, Bahama Islands, Bermuda, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canal Zone, Channel Islands, Ceylon, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Iran, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Siam, South Africa, Venezuela and Wales...