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...Greenburg is at work on a massive book (100,000 words so far) calling for integrated teaching in U.S. education. Passionate on the subject of "uneducated educators" (especially college presidents), he says that education will return to its proper role of "perspective" only when it rediscovers teachers with "the intellectual guts to expose themselves to criticism and improvement." For five years Greenburg has exposed himself on San Antonio's commercial station WOAI-TV, driven his viewers to read one "great book" a week and sit still for the torrent of gibes, jokes, sneers and slang that he delivers with...
...Catholic. Raised in Brooklyn, the son of a master cooper, Greenburg lost the use of his legs when he got polio at 16. He took up weight lifting, soon huffed through 500 knee bends at a time. (He now mows his lawn at a dead run, each day drives up to 200 golf balls 200 yds.) Jewish by family background, he was converted to Catholicism after reading St. Thomas Aquinas at Brooklyn's St. John's University. He took his doctorate at Columbia, where, despite the ubiquitous influence of John Dewey, he remained a disciple of Aquinas...
High scorer on the team, which averaged three scores a game, was Fred Rhinelander, who ran for five touchdowns and passed for two others. Bill Gray, Steve Kurzman, and Ed White scored three apiece, John MacNamara and Hank Greenburg each made two, and Forrest Bramble made one. Other teams in the league can find solace in the fact that all these men are seniors...
...undefeated and untied Elephonts will have John McNamara at fullback with Fred Rhinelander and Hank Greenburg at the halves, and Steve Kurzman at quarterback. Eliot will have four all-star linemon: Bill Gray, Summer White, Whitey, Black, and Luke Lockwood...
...Stephen Kurzman '53 Eliot QB 19 Francis V. Scanlon '55 Winthrop QB 18 John F. King 54' Adams QB 17 Harold F. Levy '55 Adams HB 16 Ronald L. Peyton '54 Dunster HB 15 William D. Howells '54 Eliot HB 14 Frederic Rhinelander '53 Eliot HB 13 Henry A. Greenburg '53 Eliot HB 25 Lawrence R. Bores '55 Dunster HB 26 Norman Hall Jr. '54 Winthrop HB 12 John McNamara Jr. '53 Eliot HB 11 William C. James '54 Winthrop FB 10 Joseph M. Donald Adams FB Officials: Lerey J. Kelley (Dartmouth), referee; Thomas J. Murphy (Boston College), umpire; John...