He worked as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, for advertising and public relations firms, and for North American Rockwell.
[citation needed] His work appeared in such magazines as Saturday Evening Post, New Yorker, |Harper's, Blue Book, Galaxy, Argosy, Boys' Life, and Scouting.
Under the name Rice E. Cochran, he published Be Prepared!, a humorous memoir of his experiences as a Scoutmaster.It was the basis for the 1953 movie Mister Scoutmaster.
[citation needed] Using the pseudonym Dale Colombo, Keith Monroe published in Boys' Life a series about Scouts in space, featuring a protagonist named Ed Linden, set aboard the spaceship Magellan.
These Scouts had been born in interstellar space during the decades-long journey from Earth to planets orbiting a distant star.