 In 1955 and 1956 he wrote a number of television plays, some of which drew upon his experiences with Trotsky and as a ghost writer.His 1956 teleplay "Five Who Shook the Mighty", a dramatization of the trial of five Romanians who had captured the Romanian Communist legation in Switzerland (the Berne incident), was the subject of protests by the Romanian embassy but was given a special award by the Crusade for Freedom.He wrote a monthly column in 1957 for "Nugget", a men's magazine.