Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In 49 years of Davis Cup play, the U.S. has won the cup 18 times. But the grand days of U.S. amateur tennis supremacy, like those of Ivy League football, are long gone. Since 1950, Australia's strong-armed youngsters have ruled the courts; the U.S. has won only...
But it was not to be that way. As McKinley's doubles partner, Davis Cup Captain Robert J. Kelleher chose Dennis ("The Menace") Ralston, 20, a temperamental Californian whose best showing was as a member of the winning Wimbledon doubles team in 1960, but whose uninspired play since then...
THE LONELY LIFE (315 pp.)-Bette Davis-Pufnam ($5.75).
When Bette Davis first arrived in Hollywood, she was (by her own account) a mousy, 22-year-old virgin with knobby knees, a pelvic slouch, and cold blue bugeyes that radiated intelligence. "She has as much sex appeal," lamented her first studio boss, "as Slim Summerville." But in three overworked...
Tamable Shrew. With the ruefulness implicit in her title, but also with honesty and a bitchy bonhomie that seldom adorn such Sunset sagas, Bette Davis, now 54, pictures herself as Mother Goddam, a tamable shrew who never found her Petruchio. Her four marriages suffered inevitably from income-patibility. In 1946...