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...part of the feverish preparations for the eleven-day, 1,200-mile tour by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip of ten West German cities, the first state visit by a reigning British monarch since Edward VII paid his last call on Kaiser Wilhelm...
...Hanoverian kings, and Germany's Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and they have an estimated 400 royal relatives in Germany. The name of the British royal house was changed in 1917 by George V, Elizabeth's grandfather, from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor (whereupon Kaiser Wilhelm II, George's first cousin, gleefully called for a performance of The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha). Philip is a Mountbatten, a name also Anglicized in 1917 from Battenberg...
...Buzhardt, who never won more than ten games in any of his six previous big-league seasons, is sporting a 4-0 record and an earned-run average of 1.53-second lowest in the league. The bullpen crew is headed by a couple of well-traveled knuckle-bailers: Hoyt Wilhelm and Eddie Fisher, who between them have toiled for 14 pro teams. Their combined record this spring: two victories, one loss, twelve saves...
...first hint of trouble. In one game last year, Chicago's Joe Horlen had a four-hit shutout going after seven innings. "Good job," said Lopez, and packed him off to the showers. He called in Gary Peters to pitch the eighth inning, then sent for Wilhelm...
...their favors. None more so than La Belle Otero, with her jet-black hair, hourglass figure and enameled complexion. One night at the Café de Paris, five rulers of Europe offered homage at her table-Russia's Nicholas II, Britain's Edward VII, Prussia's Wilhelm II, Belgium's Leopold II and Spain's Alfonso XIII. Otero boasted, "I have been a slave to my passions, but never...