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1/11 1/9 WEDNESDAY 13 JANUARY 1971 13th day - 352 days to come

Rcd. a letter from Marvin Katz. He enclosed a letter from a woman who saw the GRIT article and asked if I could give her the rules for MILL (enclosing a stamp). Marv's letter said that he had received an inquiry as to addresses of game companies which, I presume, he answered. He said that this was twice as much response as he usually gets.

Rcd. a letter from Lech Pijanowski. He also sent me rules for two of his own original, but derivitive, games: DOMINO BOARD GAME, SPIDER'S WEB, or THE NET. He demanded that I send him the book SERIOUS GAMES and the games PROPAGANDA and HAAR HOOLIM PERCEPTION GAMES. The tone of the letter was insulting.

Rcd. the Jan. '71 PANZERFAUST. Jared Johnson had a thumbnail review of TWIXT. (The issue is numbered 40, a new system.)

Rcd. a long-distance call from Mary Hilt at Stancraft. She is working on the production of TRANSFORMATION and wanted to know if I'd mind it being done in plas- tic. I said that wood would probably be more attrac- tive, but that was her field and I trusted that hse would do the best possible job. We also discussed the pieces and she is having a little problem there. She doesn't expect to have it ready for Toy Fair, except possibly a dummy. I asked her about AIRLINE and she figures there will be a problem getting the board into a bookcase format, but she hasn't tackled it yet. Hank Laub doesn't like the name and I agreed that wasn't crazy about it. Mary said that Tom Atwater has been bothering her about contracts for TRANSFORMATION and Alex' games. She is trying to get the legal department to get them out but they have to get everything from Brown & Bigelow (spelling?) and they are always kept waiting. Saxon Industries have taken over B&B and she hopes that once the organization is complete they, Stancraft, will have a better position. They expect to put out 8 new games this spring, plus 4 sports card GAMEs (DMR Games - see 12/15/70) they took over from an independent manufacturer, tho he may continue sell- ing them under the terms of the contract. They are also putting out a line of CHESS sets. I mentioned the very disappointing royalties on my TEMPO, ODD OR EVEN and INTERPLAY, also on Alex' DOZO and CASTILE. She didn't know anything about the sales end but said she would check and let me know how (cont. on 1/11)