 The story was so popular, it was dramatized in a 1959 television episode of the Loretta Young Show.Flack reportedly idolized President Theodore Roosevelt, writing the novel "Room for Mr. Roosevelt" and the teleplay based on it, "Make Way for Teddy"; and a brief memoir for The New Yorker, "Theodore Roosevelt And My Green-Gold Fountain Pen"  In the story, a 13-year-old Flack sees Roosevelt watching birds in a Syracuse, New York park, where Flack loses his green-gold fountain pen.He later sees Roosevelt in the local courthouse and also spies his pen—in the former President's pocket.