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OCR Page 1 of 8Washington, D. C.
October 10, 1945
CO SUMMARY
10:30 AM TOM CORCORAN to BILL YOUNGMAN. The following conversation took place:
TC - About this article - - (Saturday Evening Post, 10-13-45 issue, on
CORCORAN)
BY - I think we should get a high-grade fellow and ask him to write
a reply and ask them to print it with equal publicity or sue them
for libel.
TC - Well, why should we sue them for libel?
BY - What
TC - Why should we sue 'em for libel?
BY - Well, I'd just ask 'em to print it.
TC - Well, who do you mean--Sterling (Drug, Inc.) or ourselves?
BY - Oh, well, Sterling will never sue em for libel. They say, 'TO
hell with them. '
TC - That thing--that Sterling story doesn't bother me. Does it
bother you?
BY - Well, I don't like the flavor of the whole thing. I mean, I think
it's about as vicious a piece of writing as I've seen in a long
time.
IC - Yeah--in the flavor--yeah.
BY - I mean, if you were trying to do an unfair writing job and picking
out the testimony of witnesses that was afterwards called, found
false by the committee and all that kind of thing, you couldn't
have done a more unfair writing job.
TC - Well, I grant you that.
BY - And all this stuff about (WILLTAM ERHARD) WEISS and you. It
sounds as though you and WEISS were buddies and somehow or other
they straightened you out and made a good American out of you.
TC - Well, but I think I'd rather have Sterling do it than ourselves,
wouldn't you?
BY - Well, Sterling won't do it. Sterling is in a more vulnerable
position because any time they sue why--it's true they're new
management now--but what they say about the old management is also
their responsibility. I mean, it's still the same corporation. I
don't know that we necessarily want to sue 'em but I'd make a big
stink about it. And I think I'd write the story the other way.
TC - Yeah. Now, have you got a letter from FRANK WOOD on my desk?
BY - Didn't see any. Just a second. Not here.
TC - O.K. All right, sir.
BY - See you
TC - Yeah.
11:10 AM
TOM CORCORAN to ED FOLEY (at Executive Offices, extension 410).
TC - Now this thing went awfully well last night.
EF - It did?
TC - Yeah: Now, did you in the meantime talk to BEN? (COHEN)
EF - Yeah. I had breakfast with him. I went by his apartment last
night about 11 o'clock and he wasn't there. He called me later
and we arranged to have breakfast this morning. He told me
last night that the two were having dinner together.
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