 Following a stint in the United States Navy during World War II, he helped his father found the publication now known as "Kiplinger's Personal Finance", first published in 1947, before relocating to Chicago in 1948 to work as a columnist for the "Chicago Journal of Commerce" and political newscaster for networks ABC and NBC.In 1956, he returned to Kiplinger Washington Editors.In 1961, he succeeded his father as editor-in-chief of the Kiplinger Letters and Changing Times.