"Of course, of course!" Jubal agreed pettishly. "If he's at a public phone booth anywhere in Washington , he can have both voice and vision direct to his office, face to face with his assistant, cheaper, easier, and. quicker than he could phone a stat message to be sent back to Washington from a point nearly two hundred miles away.  It doesn't make sense.  Or, rather, it makes just one kind of sense.  Hanky-panky.  Ben is as used to hanky-panky as a bride is to kisses.  He didn't get to be one of the best winchells in the business through playing his cards face up."