Word: incognito
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...even heard of him. Sir John Reeves Ellerman, who inherited a shipping fortune now worth almost $300 million, is 58 years old, but he has never made a public statement other than "I have no statement to make." Since he is hardly ever photographed, he has no trouble traveling incognito, often signing on one of his ships as a crewman though of course he doesn't work at it. Ellerman's passion is rodents, on which he wrote a three-volume anatomical study, the definitive work in the field...
Author William Manchester, stricken with malaria, enters New York's Mount Sinai Hospital. Out of sympathy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.) wires Manchester a prize ham. General Ky journeys incognito to Hong Kong to have his eves westernized...
...Incognito (TIME, Jan. 1, 1965), he combined these assets to excoriate the abuses of power in police-state Rumania, providing in the biography of his hero a large-scale map of all the circles of Iron Curtain hell. In this nov el, he attacks the abuses of affluence in the West. The book is less successful than Incognito, partly because Dumitriu's allegiances are not involved and he thus writes as a bemused outsider, and partly because his experience with Westerners seems limited to the grand and the grotesque...
...teen magazine for distribution to the faithful. "It's all right," said John. "I've got a new face now." The new face looked absolutely naked, but he figures that his mop will be normally back to seed in a month or two. Meantime, he might travel incognito for a change, or fob himself off as Peter Sellers...
...Inspector General is the classic case of mistaken identity. The officials of an unnamed village learn that an inspector from St. Peterburg will soon visit their town, and may be travelling incognito. When they hear that a well-dressed stranger from Petersburg has arrived at the inn, they assume that he is their dreaded visitor. Actually, the young man is just a penniless fop who had lost all his money at cards and is stuck at the inn because he can't pay his bill. The mayor and his subordinates proceed to stuff their inspector with food, drink, and money...