[1] Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, he won an art competition and received a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design, which he attended from 1937 to 1940.
[2] From 1950 to 1960 David worked at Bantam Books, starting as a publisher's reader then advancing to editorial director and editor in chief.
At Bantam David lured Ross Macdonald away from Pocket Books and hired artist James Avati.
[6] Years later David was enraged by seeing ten to fifteen minutes cut from an Our Man Flint television broadcast that "was not so much re-edited as lobotomized into senselessness".
Logan's Run won a Special Achievement Academy Award for visual effects, which was presented by actor Roy Scheider to L.B.
Abbott, Glen Robinson, and Matthew Yuricich at the 49th Annual Academy Awards show on March 28, 1977 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.