Word: greenbergs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offseason, spent three seasons in the minors (at Albany and Toronto), then went off to hunt enemy submarines as a Navy PBM pilot. In 1946, as a rookie with the Pirates, he led the National League in homers with 23. With some instruction from his roommate, Hank Greenberg (58 home runs with Detroit in 1938), he boosted his home-run production to 51 the following year-and his salary from $10,000 to $30,000. With that he could afford to buy his mother a new home, drive a maroon Buick, and dress the part of baseball's most...
...told reporters: "Everything I said during my tour of Europe was distorted by ... American press agencies. I prefer to give what I have to say to papers like the Daily Worker." Later in the week, still pestered by newsmen at the wedding of his son, Paul Jr., to Marilyn Greenberg, a white Cornell classmate, Baritone Robeson denounced the U.S. press once more: "I have the greatest contempt for the democratic press, and there is something within me which keeps me from breaking your cameras over your heads." Besides, he added angrily, "this marriage would not have caused any excitement...
Bodies in a Ditch. For Abraham Greenberg, a wiry, 24-year-old Polish Jew with prominent cheek bones, it had begun when he was 15 and lived in Warsaw with his mother, two sisters, a brother, his cobbler father. When the Germans came, Abraham fled to Russia. The Germans caught up with him again at Stalino, where he had found a job pushing coal cars in the mines. With 500 others, Abraham was marched away to a field outside town, ordered to stand in front of an anti-tank ditch and stripped of his clothes. He fainted, and fell...
...late afternoon rain was falling when the announcement came over the detention camp radio at Xylotombou, Cyprus. A young Jew scurried along the camp's muddy paths, blowing a trumpet as he ran. To Abraham Greenberg, the sound was like that of the trumpets that brought down the walls of Jericho long ago. Abraham ran to tell his wife Zahava. Their firstborn, Arie, was cutting his first teeth; he would be a Jew of Israel, the first of Abraham's family in centuries not to have another nationality. Abraham and Zahava and others in the camp built...
...ROGER S. GREENBERG...