While at Morristown School, he played on the ice hockey team[2] Greene completed his bachelor's degree at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1936.
He flew blimps at Moffett Federal Airfield, the home of NASA's Ames Research Center, and he earned the rank of lieutenant.
He led the development of strategies to assist newspapers in addressing competition from TV advertising and radio ads.
[7] In the fall of 1954, the American Heritage Foundation elected General Walter Bedell Smith as president.
The foundation also named Greene as national chairman of its Crusade for Freedom, and elected him to the board of trustees.
Greene then served as assistant to the president of the Brown Company, a manufacturer of paper and wood products.
Greene later left Brown Company to serve as the vice president of InfoPlan, an international firm for public relations.
He also served on the boards of the Advertising Federation of America, the Brand Names Foundation, and Greenwich, Connecticut's Community Chest.
In 1954, he navigated stormy waters on the Atlantic Ocean for 10 hours while Hurricane Carol hit the Mid-Atlantic states.