This bit from Philosophy Now comes via Ranjit Chatterjee, author of Wittgenstein and Judaism: a Triumph of Concealement and Aspect and Meaning in Slavic and Indic:



"Boston Sage Dies
Burton Dreben died this past summer. He was a student of Quine's in the 1940s and then went off to England where, amongst other things, he taught John Austin logic with a deck of cards: The game was called Symboli or Case and for some time afterwards Austin believed it was the only way to learn logic. He was known as a conversationalist and published virtually nothing. However, in the last thirty years, few philosophical publications have escaped Boston uncensored by him. Hilary Putnam dedicated a book: "To Burton Dreben, who still won't agree". In his last years he was known as the only man who knew more about Quine than Quine ("That is what I said, isn't it Burt?"). He was interested in the interaction of great philosophers, especially in the way in which they misinterpreted each other and was once heard, unofficially but loudly, to say: "Philosophy is all garbage! But the history of philosophy, that's not garbage." Other vigorous pronouncements include: "Wittgenstein said it was nonsense, and by God he meant it!", as the
Tractatus came crashing to the table. "