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Tuesday 6 January 1970

Feast of the Epiphany 6th day - 359 days to come

Felicia called to get my opinion of QUEST (see 12/30/69). Told her I liked it, tho it will need a little cleaning up. We also both liked the inventor. She has doubts tho whether anyone will be interested in the subject matter. She knew about Lakeside's QUEST. She saw Dan Ferrone. He said he thought the general idea was great, but he didn't like a particular feature. Felicia said something about it but I couldn't make it out from what she said. About MAN IN SPACE.
She is seeing Bob Engel Friday (of Whitman). Showing him mainly children's games. Asked if I had anything to show. Couldn't think of anything. She'll check on FOCUS.
Felicia is getting a fellow in to work with her at I-S. He will handle toys. He has many toys with different companies. He will get 25% in addition to her 25% - leaving 50% for the inventor.

Because of possible heavy snow called Brian Blake and returned Harry Lorayne's book to him at Grand Central.

Phil Orbanes called. Bob Hallowell, of BRIDGEVERYONE wants to get together with Phil, Jim, & me sometime next week. He is interested in a line of from 4 to 6 games to be ready by June. They should be unique in packaging, retail for about $10, and not have too high development costs. Preferably they should be playable by a single person. Phil thinks we should all work on the project and share the royalties (he thinks we can get 6%). I suggested each of us working on 2 projects and then finishing them up together. Hallowell will be happy to put our names on the games. He thinks adult games have a really big future.
Hallowell mentioned to Phil that I was working on a GAME using Harry Lorayne's memory system, and he, Hallowell, will be able to sell it to Milton Bradley. I told Phil about Brian Blake.
Phil met a sales rep: {Bob Reis
230 Fifth Ave.
who is going to handle his astrology GAME. He has handled BRIDGEVERYONE and WFF 'N PROOF and sees a great future in adult games. He credits 3M for breaking the price barrier. For the first 2 years they were losing money, but now they're doing fine.
After talking to Jim & Bob Phil will call me and finalize a date for next week.