Well known to radio fans along the Eastern seaboard as the urbane Dick of WOR's "Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick," a morning show which featured his wife, newspaper columnist Dorothy Kilgallen.
Appeared on the popular 1950s game show "What's My Line?" in which wife Dorothy Kilgallen was a regular. He appeared five times as both a panelist and a mystery guest.
Opened in a play, 'Plain and Fancy,' on December 13, 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut. Wife Dorothy Kilgallen was unable to attend his opening as she was in Cleveland, Ohio covering the murder trial of Dr. Sam Sheppard.