While working at Warner Bros. in 1959, he was the center of a successful grass-roots letter-writing campaign to acquire a suitable couch for his office on the studio lot. A selection of these letters was published in Playboy Magazine under the title "Hollywood Horizontal" (1959) and anthologized in The Playboy Book of Humor and Satire (1965).
During his time at Warner Bros. in 1959, he became the driving force behind a grassroots effort to secure an office sofa that suited his needs on the studio lot. A collection of letters from supporters was later published in Playboy Magazine under the title "Hollywood Horizontal" (1959) and reprinted in The Playboy Book of Humor and Satire (1965).