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...Harvard team then proceeded to the final round where they faced the number-two-seeded team of Ratliff and Swift from Virginia. After taking a tense first set, 7-6, Lindner and Ingard went on to overwhelm the Virginians in the second set, 6-3, to win the championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Doubles Team Wins National Tennis Championship | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

This season the N.A.l.A. has nurtured a host of prospects who figure to make it in the pros, including Greg Northington, a 7-ft. 1½. center from Alabama State who averages 20 rebounds per game; Georgetown's Ken Davis (32-pt. average); and Mike Ratliff, a rugged 6-ft. 10-in. junior center from Eau Claire. But four players in particular, according to the scouts, have "can't miss" written all over them. Travis Grant of Kentucky State, a 6-ft. 8-in., 225-lb. forward, is rated by a Knicks scout as "the best shooting forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Thinking Small Pays Big | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...Altogether, he lost about half of his $2,000 investment. Sylvan Fry, 53, a manufacturer's agent, began investing for the first time last winter, buying oil, chemical and computer issues. On paper he has already lost $6,500 of the $11,400 that he started with. George Ratliff Jr., 39, a Pittsburgh steel-company engineer, began 1969 with a portfolio worth $16,900, has seen its value drop $2,500. He describes himself as a "fundamentalist" who invests only in securities that he thinks offer sound values. Among his losses: $1,000 in Gulf & Western convertible bonds that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Victims of the Fall | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...Crybaby. Something had to give. When Recruit Douglas Ratliff punched him in the jaw during a judo class, Johnson, who ranked first in physical fitness, struck back. No one broke up the scuffle until Johnson decked Ratliff, who took three stitches for a cut lip. Ratliff was asked to resign for breaking a strict no-fighting rule. Blasher was forced out because of his "attitude"-though he was first in the class scholastically. Impulsively, Johnson resigned in protest, charging that Blasher had been bounced because of his friendship for him. Blasher, who had spent a year on the Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Virginia: Homecoming | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...give either paper a total of 70% of the city's advertising and circulation, might draw frowns from Government trustbusters. At week's end there were plenty of other possible buyers. Stuart counted 15 inquiries, including one from a major paper in New York or Chicago. Gloomed Ratliff: "We're licked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Enquirer on the Block | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

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