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SUNDAY 3 JANUARY 1971

Second Sunday after Christmas 3rd day - 362 days to come

Wrote the rules for the Hawaiian version of GO SEE and BB typed them.

Rcd. a telephone call from Arthur. He'd like me to come there. If I don't soon he'd like me to send him a copy of S&T.

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Tom thinks that some of the Cambridge games need doctoring and asked if I would be willing to do the job. Yes for a pc. of the royalty. He'll check with them.
He told me that 3M is working on a new line between the Bookshelf & Gamette in size.
He said that Hallmark is looking at 20 items by his clients. No contracts yet.
I theorized that Hallmark would be starting with a full line because they did not want the stores that would go into games because of them to have room for other games. Tom agreed.
Some further notes:- Marvin Glass did Parker's MASTERPIECE. Dave Langhridge is now out at Parker, leaving only people put in by Bill Dohrman.
Mattel has a lot of games on hand ready to follow up if BOUNDARY goes well.
Frank Armbruster, whose name came up in connection with INSTANT INSANITY, is a nice guy, but a "loser" according to Tom. The company that put out MEM is just about out of business and Anatole Holt has pretty much lost interest. In the earlier telephone call Tom was quite discouraged and was talking about leaving agenting unless this year is very much better than last. Then, particularly after he spoke to some distributers who were enthusiastic a- bout handling the "Small Wonders" line, he was in much better spirits.
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Rcd. a letter from [bracket] Gerald E. Tanber, Professor of Physics
Tel-Aviv University
Ramat-Aviv
Tel Aviv, Israel
He saw Martin Gardner's write up on me in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. He is interested in mathematical board games. He has ordered AGOG but it takes him a long time to get it.