WEDNESDAY 21 FEBRUARY
1968 52nd day - 314 days to come
Alice called. Letter from Arnold. He had forgotten about
NOMINATION and CINEMA because they were accepted
before he was involved. The former should have been
ready in time for the election this year, and wasn't.
As for the latter they don't know "how or when" they
will do it.
Alice read me Bill Caruson's letter to Larry Winter. The reason
HIGH BID did better in 1966 than 1967 is because the first year of an
ordinary game is the pipeline onto the shelves. The next year
depends on how many replacements are needed. They think that
HIGH BID is one of their better games and they expect growing
acceptance. Another point in the letter. For two months in the
spring they didn't do any selling at all while they were rounding up
fair trade agreements.
Bob Abel called. His agent, Theron Raines, has another client,
a mystery writer, who has made a word checker GAME and
they would like some advice on it. I told Bob about
others like it but that I'd be glad to look at it. He will give
his agent my number.
Played several games of 500 RUMMY @ dad's.
The Pocket FOCUS set (he calls it MINI-FOCUS) from Dr.
Makepeace came. He put a terrific amount of work into it.
Played part of a game with it.
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