Spoiler : Born in New York City 4/11/1902; died 2/5/1991 in California. Humorist for The Saturday Evening Post, Life Magazine and The New Yorker magazines. Broadway columnist for the New York Sunday World and Variety. Ghost writer for personal- ities including Bob Hope, Henry Youngman, Liberace and Ed McMahan. Writer for the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency from the early 1930's until 1967.

Spoiler : Writer for radio programs including The Rudy Vallee Show on NBC during the 30's, Burns And Allen on CBS during the 30's, The Bing Crosby Show on CBS (1931-?), The Eddie Cantor Show on NBC (1931-1934), The Al Jolson Show on NBC (1935-1936), NTG And His Girls on NBC (1935-1936), The Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show on NBC and CBS (1937-1956), The Circle on NBC (1939), Double Or Nothing on Mutual, CBS, NBC and ABC (1940-1954), The Frank Sinatra Show on CBS (1942-1943), Meet Corliss Archer on CBS and NBC (1946-1948) and Club Fifteen on CBS (1947-1953). Writer and producer of radio program specials including the Chase And Sanborn 101st Anniversary Show with Fred Allen (1955), The NBC 40th Anniversary Show (1966) and The Chase And Sanborn Anniversary Radio program with Edgar Bergen (1967). CBS-TV staff writer (1953-1956); wrote for General Electric Hour (1955). NBC staff writer (1956-1957). Head writer for The Bob Crosby Show on NBC-TV (1958).