[7] He produced and directed the radio version and was one of its writers, but a clause in his contract with Phillips Lord, who owned the rights to the program, limited his on-air credit to co-author.
[8]: 464 Once a week for more than a decade he dressed like a working man and went to dangerous parts of the city, including rough bars, seeking ideas for stories from "thieves, lackeys, and off-duty cops".
[8]: 465 He also produced the radio programs Pot o' Gold,[6] The Adventures of Christopher Wells,[12] Music by Gershwin,[8]: 471 and What's My Name?.
In the latter role he produced "an unprecedented series of air shows costing about $400,000" to oppose passage of the Taft–Hartley Act.
[7] He died of cancer on November 21, 1964, in Veterans Hospital in West Haven, Connecticut, aged 59.