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Prince Sukhodaya, Siam's abdicated King Prajadhipok, collected the first payment on insurance which he took out several years ago against the loss of his throne. Weekly payments from French and British firms will give shrewd Sukhodaya about $40,000 a year for the rest of his life...
...objection?" This, correspondents pleaded, was not enough. A reigning monarch is never interviewed, but could they not have the honor of quoting Siam's former King of the North and of the South, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half-brother of the Sun and Possessor of the Four and Twenty Golden Umbrellas...
...faced Prince Ananda Mahidol, whose late father, a loyal Harvardman, resided for years in Cambridge's Brattle Inn. Last week Elfin Prince Ananda was at school in Lausanne, Switzerland when the Siamese Minister to Paris arrived to tell his mother that her son may be King of Siam...
...true Siamese, the unruffled Princess replied vaguely, though with exquisite politeness. Said the Siamese Minister's secretary's secretary happily, "We do not think Her Royal Highness has any objection to her son's becoming King of Siam...
...Wheeler has removed some 1,000 bad eyes from some 1,000 good patients. He pops cataracts out of eyeballs, puts popeyes back where they belong, patches eyelids, makes eyelashes out of eyebrows. His most famed patient but by no means his best paying was King Prajadhipok of Siam (see p. 24) who gave him something less than $25,000 for squeezing a cataract out of the royal left eye. Last week Dr. Wheeler went to his own Eye Institute, had his assistant director remove his left eye because it had developed a tumor. In a month...