[2] He grew a foot taller to 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) by the time he began playing college basketball at Princeton University, and played for three seasons before he enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

[2][4] He was Chief of Protocol and Official Greeter for the City of New York for seven years during John Lindsay's administration.

Palmer modeled menswear, advertised Vitalis hair tonic, and wrote as an advice columnist in Glamour magazine.

[1] Palmer died at 91 of metastatic prostate cancer in 2013 in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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