 Hemingway was doing battlefield stories for the American audience for Collier's and sought assignment with Lanham's regiment.Hemingway described Lanham as,

Lanham retired from the military at the end of 1954, as a Major General, to join the Pennsylvania-Texas Corporation of Colt's Patent Firearms.He resigned in 1958 and joined Xerox in 1960 as Vice President for Government Relations, retiring from that post at the end of 1970.