Word: incognitos
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...Thomson aplomb. As he prowled about Britain looking for properties to buy, Thomson crossed the path of the group's proprietor, Sir John Reeves Ellerman, 51, a recluse so unsociable that he has been photographed only three times in 30 years. An indefatigable voyager, Sir John usually travels incognito, often signing on as seaman on one of his own merchant ships. For all his eccentricities, he has demonstrated a remarkable affinity for money, has swelled to $280 million the $81 million shipping fortune he inherited in 1933. Among the vast Ellerman holdings: breweries, real estate-and the largest single...
...help him with the Mobil job, reports that some highly rated French eating places would have been ruled out by his staff because of unclean kitchens. A similarity between the Michelin and Mobil scouts: both announce their impending arrival by letter, months in advance; but the inspectors eat incognito, revealing their identity only after they have finished their meal...
...border ballad, with especial sensitivity. She does a Mexican song, El Preso Numero Nueve (The Ninth Prisoner) with all the verve and fire it was meant to have. Also included are two English broadsides, one of which, John Riley, deals with the classic theme of the lover returning home incognito to test his love's faithfulness...
...curtain rose on Terence Rattigan's hit play Ross, a couple strolled down the aisle to Row G, soon complained to an usherette that another couple had usurped their No. 1 and 2 seats. The unwitting usurpers: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, enjoying an incognito evening out. Apologetically and still unrecognized by the audience, the royal pair moved over. Earlier, Philip was better prepared for a surprise that arose at Reading University, whose vice chancellor. Sir John Wolfenden, awarding him an honorary doctor of science degree, glowingly described the prince in the words of Poet...
...seasons with enough facial forestry to make a sensation at a woodchoppers' ball. Actually, he had let himself go to seed for a role as King Lear at Stratford-on-Avon's Shakespearean theater. Leaving London on a brief trip to Paris, where presumably he would roam incognito. Laughton muffled: "I'll be glad to get a lawnmower on this...