Prior to serving in the United States Army during World War II,[2] Sloane began writing scripts for radio, including service-action shows like The Man Behind the Gun (for which he dramatized the Allied landing on Sicily the day after the invasion, winning a 1943 Peabody Award[3]), Top Secret, and Indictment.
[5] He and his wife wrote "The Yamina Solyska Story," to document Nazi kidnapping of Polish children who were transfused with "Nordic" blood and fostered by Germans.
[6] Sloane was among the 151 entertainment and journalism professionals who the right-wing booklet Red Channels implied were supporting Communist causes; he was blacklisted by CBS in November 1952, which effectively denied him any further radio script-work.
He is credited with creating the 1966 series Hawk,[13] which featured Burt Reynolds as the title character, as well as guest appearances by Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, and Diane Baker.
[19] AFter World War II, Sloane lived on Long Island and commuted to New York City, although he shared a small apartment in Manhattan with fellow-writer Alvin Boretz[20]).