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...Manhattan, after interviewing returning notables on the Queen Elizabeth, newsmen caught a glimpse and no more of Conductor Leopold Stokowski, back from Europe incognito (his traveling alias: Anthony Stanley) and minus his heiress wife, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski. Shielding his face with a black coat, he ducked out of his cabin, hurried down the gangplank and off in a waiting limousine...
...sort of fellow, and his wife checked in quietly, but a reporter was soon on their trail. Even the cost of their dinner ($1.72 for two) and the size of the tip (35?) were carefully noted. Harry Truman granted that he and Bess were not having much luck traveling "incognito...
Personal Selection. He had flown to New York the previous night (he neither confirmed nor denied using the incognito "Howard Roberts") to consult specialists. X rays had picked out a shadow on his left hip bone. The doctors had described it as a lesion, and "that's all I got out of them." He had first noticed a great weariness when he started "whaling golf balls" early last spring...
...glittered with bright stars of the international carriage trade. Trailing white satin, diamonds and lanky Hollywood Cowboy Gary Cooper, French Cinemactress Gisele Pascal showed up without her steady escort, Monaco's Prince Ranier III. Tubby ex-King Farouk shied at photographers ("Please, no pictures. I'm here incognito!"). Oldtime Singer Maurice Chevalier ogled the crowd, happily concluded, "Everybody, but everybody is here tonight...
Israel decided to honor him with the first visa ever granted to a non-Jewish German tourist. But when the news got out, there were mutterings from unforgiving Jewish extremists, so the Israeli government told Lüth to come incognito, if at all. and fibbed to the press that his trip had been canceled. Not until his trip was over and he was back home in Hamburg last week did the story of the "traveler to Cyprus" come out. "Israel has been defiled," cried the jingoist daily Herut, but other Israelis found the situation wryly humorous. "When the Germans...