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...central Europe, in Napoleonic times. Kaye is not the knave of Gogol's play but a good-hearted rube. A half-starved outcast from a medicine show, he is mistaken by the crooked mayor (Gene Lockhart) and his henchmen-relatives for Napoleon's feared inspector general traveling incognito. Then, hardly grown into his splendid Techncolored uniform and the hungry affections of the mayor's wife (Elsa Lanchester), Kaye becomes a cat's-paw and fall guy for the scoundrelly medicine-show boss (Walter Slezak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 23, 1950 | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

Mestrovic, who now teaches at Syracuse University, added that the Yugoslav ambassador also had been urging him to return, if only for a visit. "He said that if I wished I could go incognito. But I will go to Belgrade incognito only when Tito goes to Moscow incognito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Certainly Not | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

When he reigned, Leopold had a reputation for disregarding his ministers' counsel. But at week's end he canceled his hunting junket, instead took his princess to Paris for an "incognito" holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Going Places? | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...western, and thus a considerably better-than-average movie. Victor Mature, a gunman employed by silver-mining Tycoon Albert Dekker, suspects his boss of framing his father (an Army officer court-martialed after an Indian massacre at an Arizona fort). It is fairly easy for Mature to run around incognito, since none of his law-abiding family would claim him. His ineffectual brother (Glenn Langan), hot on the same vengeful trail, is more of a headache; brother nearly bungles everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 5, 1948 | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

Niels Bohr, too, was unsure. Bohr's model of the atom (nucleus and orbit electrons) won him a Nobel Prize in 1922. He escaped from Nazi-ruled Copenhagen in 1943, and brought his precious knowledge to U.S. atom-bomb builders, with whom he worked in thin incognito as "Mr. Nicholas Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fundamental Mysteries | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

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