His book, "Running & Being: The Total Experience", became a New York Times best seller.
He served as a doctor in the United States Navy in the South Pacific during World War II on the destroyer USS Daly (DD-519).
degree in 1943 from the Long Island College of Medicine (now known as SUNY Downstate Medical Center).
He continued to write for Runner's World after the magazine was purchased by Rodale Press.
He died of prostate cancer at his home in the Ocean Grove section of Neptune Township, New Jersey.