- (1955-1959) President of the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAw)
- Was long associated as a scriptwiter with Bob Hope.
- Subject of an entertaining 'as told to' memoir by D. W. McCaffrey called "Bound And Gagged In Hollywood" (Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2006).
- College classmates at Washington University in St. Louis included character actress Mary Wickes; lawyer and political insider Clark Clifford, Howard Morgens, future President of Proctor & Gamble; and, Kay Thompson, celebrated actress and nightclub performer and writer of the Eloise At The Plaza stories.
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