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Dates: during 1960-1969
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His temperamental tennis-court out-hursts have earned moody, meteoric Dennis Ralston. 19. the U.S.'s third-ranked amateur player, the nickname "Dennis the Menace." A racket kicker and net pounder whose uninhibited language has occasionally curled the hair of spectators and court officials. Ralston was sentenced to one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Menace Scratched | 9/8/1961 | See Source »

Reason for the U.S.L.T.A.'s action: Ralston blew up while losing a doubles match to Mexico in the American Zone Davis Cup finals in Cleveland last month. Weakened by a throat infection. Ralston tossed and kicked his racket, slammed the ball into the net in disgust at his own...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Menace Scratched | 9/8/1961 | See Source »

Despite a swirl of criticism that its punishment was unduly harsh, the U.S. L.T.A. kept a self-righteous silence; there was also no indication whether the suspension would be lifted in time for Ralston to play in the U.S. Davis Cup team's interzone round against India this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Menace Scratched | 9/8/1961 | See Source »

I was planning to get my parents to build a bomb shelter with a removable top that could double as a swimming pool. But after reading about the Davis family [Aug. 18], I decided that it would be much better to die from the bomb's fallout than live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 1, 1961 | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

Is Premier Khrushchev going to send Defender Davis' family an engraved invitation to run to their shelter? There won't be many trips or vacations in that family, will there? Or they may be caught in some very unfriendly town by people just as unchristian as they are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 1, 1961 | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

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