- Sold his first one-act play while attending the University of Washington.
- Penned close to a dozen scripts for the popular radio program Suspense, including now classic episodes "August Heat," "Drive-In," "To Find Help" and "Riabouchinska" which he later adapted for the Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) television series.
- His radio script, "The Hand" was one of the only scripts to ever be rejected by Suspense's sponsor Auto-Lite for being objectionable. The story concerned a woman who is involved in an auto accident, and gets to the car she totaled to discover the driver's severed hand, still clutching an envelope filled thousands of dollars in cash. She takes the money, and is soon haunted by obsessive thoughts of the hand.
- Began his career writing radio drama.
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