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).
He played a key role while working at Warner Bros. in 1959 to secure an office sofa that met his requirements on the studio lot, which was highlighted through a grassroots campaign and later published in "Hollywood Horizontal" (1959) and reprinted in The Playboy Book of Humor and Satire (1965).