Summaries of Telephone Conversations

Washington, D. C. October 11, 1945 CO SUMMARY 8:25 AM BENJAMIN SONNENBERG to THOMAS CORCORAN: TC - Hello. BS - TOMMY. TC - Yes, BEN. BS - I'm sorry to wake you. TC I You didn't wake me. BS - Listen, did that boy ever get there? TC - Yeah, I got those things and I read them last night (remainder of Saturday Evening Post articles on CORCORAN). BS - Yeah. TC - I didn't like those pictures in the last two. I know you didn't either. BS - Well, it TC - Well, I understand he probably got panned for the first one. BS - Yeah, not only that, I really called you to tell you to for God's sake sit on those copies now because they can be traced and there are very few around TC - Yeah, I'm being very careful about it. BS - You know, so that --- I don't want them to turn up somewhere. I don't want to give any betrayal that anybody knows but that these things come out, you know, in time. But I'm not kidding you now, I don't think that these stories are going to do one Goddamn bit of harm and I think they're going to do a terrific amount of good, providing you can out-sit them. TC - What do you mean by that? BS - By that I mean that you don't take them by one that you take them on the whole. Do you get what I mean? TC - Yeah, I think so. BS - What I'm trying to say that if you think that the guy treats you severely in the first issue you see, my contention is that TC - I don't think the first one is as bad as the subsequent ones. The things that upset me about that thing --- it don't upset me because I take your advice BS - Well, goddamn it, I think that third piece is a wonderful piece. TC - Well. BS - Now, we know the hell he had, see, and I, well, I told you, I will get you those notes. I'll tell you what, I know goddamn well I can buy that whole goddamn caboodle, see. I mean, the stuff that wasn't used. TC - Well, now, that stuff is all printed now isn't it? BS - Huh? TC - It's all printed? BS - That stuff is all printed. Why you've got the finished copies. TC - That's right. The thing that upset me most about it was that business about taking the shady characters' money, do you remember? BS - No. TC - Well they got to town on the FRANK COHEN (phonetic) story in there BS - Oh, you mean in the second -