[1] He went on to write plays for Playhouse 90 and was the founding Washington Bureau Chief and White House Correspondent for the ABC Television Network.
In 1963, he produced the Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning ABC television series Saga of Western Man.
In May 1924, he emigrated to the United States with his mother, Linda Secondari, on board the S.S. Providence, which sailed from Naples, Italy, and arrived at the Port of New York on June 4, whereupon they were immediately detained at Ellis Island as being in "excess of quota".
[1] He was delivered by his father, Epaminonda Secondari, the last surviving founding member of the American College of Cardiology.
He joined the U.S. Army in 1941 and commanded a reconnaissance unit and a tank company in combat during World War II in France, Germany, and Austria.