Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most Valuable Player Award is often and rightly awarded to a player on the pennant winning team. However, the Yankees had such a huge lead that they could have won the pennant without Mantle; the Red Sox could certainly not have finished anywhere near third without the services of Thumping Theodore...
Mantle had it right when he commented after hearing of the award, "I thought Ted would make it easily. I didn't expect it at all." Roy Sievers, who finished a close third in the balloting, laid it on the line even harder, "Ted should have won it. He certainly deserved the award...
...Mantle is a Yankee, and the Yankees are the "power elite" of the baseball world. They are the biggest; they have more money, better organization and more pennants. The Yankees win and the American dream of success influences even sports writers. A Yankee has won the Most Valuable Player Award each of the last four years and twelve times since...
...freedom. The United States must show France that a weak Algeria is worse than no Algeria at all. The only hope for good relations between France and its North African colony is mutual trust and understanding. These can be gained, however, only if France now demonstrates its willingness to award eventual autonomy and also to guide and strengthen Algeria through the intermediate stage...
...Science-fiction pulp magazines infected him with the science bug. "I soon discovered," he explains, "that it was scientific fact that I was interested in, and not fiction." He won a fellowship at Columbia, took his Ph.D. there at 21. In 1951 he won the Albert Einstein Award for achievement in the natural sciences for his work on the interaction of light and matter and the properties of electrons and light, is now involved with studies on general principles of quantum mechanics. Like many other scientists, he is a music lover, once tried teaching himself to play the piano...