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WEDNESDAY 25 FEBRUARY 1970 56th day - 309 days to come

Felicia called. We'll go to the Fair separately and then next Monday night I'll call her and we'll exchange note. Business is bad all over and she doesn't think there is much chance of selling anything this year. She asked about the performance of my 3M games so that she could report on them to the I-S board meeting. A company came to her with an elaborate dart GAME with a light up board. She gave them some advice. If it works out they will give her a game.

Registered at the Toy Fair. In the Press Room got a bunch of news releases and picked out a lot of catalogs. Met Geoffrey Wheeler, editor of CRAFT MODEL & HOBBY INDUSTRY. He wrote the review on AGOG. He is thinking of doing more material on games. I offered to advise him and he said he'd call on me when he was ready. Exchanged cards. He gave me a copy of his Magazine. (I will have to go over the material I picked up, filing the useful & discarding the rest.)

Passed Aberdeen Book Store. They are going out of business. I bought a copy of WATSON'S PLAY AT BRIDGE for $1.25.

Picked up HAND BOOK OF REVERSI, HALMA, &C from the Photo Offsetters.

Claude told me about a game CHINCHÓN he saw in a fairly recent article in Look Magazine. It is a Basque game played with cards. The address for the game HANKY PANKY is { Thomas Meenan New Milford, N.J. 07646 He went to the gift show. Not much on games. Austin Associates had a PUZZLE (Claude had circlar) which con- sisted of square notched rod locked together in horizontal and vertical directions. It is like EXCALIBUR but without the solid cube. Claude gave me some game material consisting of a lot of plastic pcs. of cross section as shown. These can be stacked. (Filed in "Equipment" Box.) [line drawing to left]

Feb. PLAYTHINGS came. New products included TRADE-THE-MARKET, a stock market game.