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Escorted by three court cars, two motorcyclists and his stepmother (the Princess de Rethy), King Baudouin of Belgium and his party roared into Hertogenwald forest on what the palace called an "incognito" hunting trip. A squadron of beaters managed to maneuver one wild boar within six yards of the nearsighted King, who scored a clean miss. The tally at the end of the hunt: three wild boar, one hind. The King's bag: nothing...
Summer guests at a hotel in Bad Ischl, in the Austrian lake country, noted the hand-in-hand riverbank walks of Baron Goldschmidt-Rothschild, 61, and a grey-wigged fellow guest who called herself Mrs. Harriet Brown. Beneath the wig: 46-year-old Incognito Expert Greta Garbo, who had shifted from the usual sun glasses to the trappings of middle age. But to reporters who finally penetrated the disguise, Garbo gave the same old answer: "I don't want to talk to anyone . . . The Baron is just a very good friend...
THANK YOU FOR THE EXCELLENT REVIEW [JUNE 16] OF "HOW TO TRAVEL INCOGNITO." MAY I POINT OUT, HOWEVER, THAT I WROTE OTHER BOOKS: "THE DONKEY INSIDE"-ON ECUADOR. "THE BLUE DANUBE"-ON THE MISERY OF GERMANY. "THE BEST OF TIMES"- ON POSTWAR EUROPE. "FIFl"- ABOUT A POODLE. "MADELINE"-ABOUT A LITTLE GIRL. "DIRTY EDDY"-ABOUT A PIG. "THE EYE OF GOD"-ABOUT A MOUNTAIN. I SHALL, HOWEVER, HEED YOUR ADVICE. MY NEXT BOOK IS ABOUT LOVE. ITS TITLE: "WITH THE GREATEST OF PLEASURES." LOVE...
...TRAVEL INCOGNITO (244 pp.) - Ludwig Bemelmans - Little, Brown...
...Travel Incognito, Bemelmans adopts the cognomen of Ludwig, Prince of Bavaria. The title is pressed on him by his good friend, the Comte de St. Cucuface. "You must take full advantage of your title," Cucuface tells Prince Bemelmans. "You are now no longer a tourist to be pushed about. You are the one to do the pushing. You will give bad tips and be better served than anyone else. You must not pay your bills and shopkeepers will swear that you are indeed a real prince...