Brother-in-law of Gen. George C. Marshall, US Army Chief of Staff
during World War II, and later both Secretary of State and Secretary of
Defense under President Harry Truman.
Author, lawyer, publisher and retired US Army brigadier general, veteran of both World War I and World War II.
Between the wars he worked as a scenario writer for Fox Films, Republic Pictures and Universal Pictures.
During World War Two he served as US Army public relations officer for the European Theater.