Hobart College - Echo of the Seneca Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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The biggest thing in ’56 baseball was young Mickey Mantle. The twenty-five year-old ball player led the major leagues in just about everything. He had, for the second consecutive year, the highest slugging per- centage in both leagues-- 705 or 376 bases for 533 times at bat. He also led in batting (.353), runs batted in (130), and home runs (52—eight short of Ruth’s famed record). This makes Mantle the fourth player in major league history to lead both leagues in these three catagories at once. It is fairly obvious, then, that one of Mickey’s many a- wards was the “Most Valu- able Player of 1956.” i 33

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 On October 5, Victor Riesel, crusading; labor ml umnist, was permanently blinded by an acid-throw- ing assailant. The incident aroused angry public reac- tion. Soon the main figures behind the assatilt were un- covered. President Eisen- hower promised to begin an attack upon the underworld infiltration of unions. And so it appears that an at- tempt to protect racketeer unions has resulted in the focusing of public attention upon them. 1956 saw the death of John Florence Sullivan, better known as E'red Allen. He began his career in the 1920’s as a vaudeville come- dian and juggler, but was soon topping radio popu- larity polls in his famous show, “Allen’s Alley.’’ more recently he turned to writing. His autobiography, Treadmill to Oblivion, was a best-seller. Much Ado About Me, his last book, was pub- lished posthumously. Be- fore his death, Allen was panelist on What’s My Line?” But he never felt at ease in the medium of tele- vision and had tried unsuc- cessfully to establish a TV program. With his death we have lost not only a great comedian, but a wry and acute commentator upon the American scene. 1 I I I : .‘52

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1956 was a happy year for Ernest Borgnine. His films: Jubal, The Catered Affair and The Best Things in Life were all box-office hits. But his most unpre- tentious film, Marty, was by far his most successful. The “Best Picture of the Year,” it earned for Borg- nine the Oscar for his per- formance in it. This was the year Dave Sime of Duke proved him- self to be one of America’s foremost runners—a feat he accomplished in the short span of two months. On May 5 he topped an old world record by running the 220-yard low hurdles in 22.2 seconds. Six days later he ran the 220-yard dash. It took him 20.1 sec- onds to crash through an- other world record. He equalled the record for the 100-yard dash of 9.3 sec- onds on May 19. Finally, June 9 he broke his own previous record for the 220- yard dash. He shaved the time from 20.1 to an even 20 seconds. There’s no tell- ing what new records lie’ll break once he catches his breath. :54