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WEDNESDAY 10 FEBRUARY 1971

41st day - 324 days to come

Rcd. a good batch of Poultron Press (S&T) stationery, STALINGRAD 3, and a press card - originally marked expires 1/172 and changed to 1/7/71. I'll have to call Jim Dunnigan again.

Rcd. Feb. TOYS Parker has a new game MASTERPIECE. Lowe has added new sports games to the one they had last year ROSE BOWL COMPUTERIZED FOOTBALL. The new ones are WORLD SERIES COMPUTERIZED BASEBALL and PLAYOFF COMPUTERIZED BASKETBALL. S&R has RPM, the Revolving Word Game. The Gary and Riedel lists the following new ones: COUPLES, BATTLE OF THE SEXES, GAME OF ETHICS, CAVEAT EMPTOR, RECKON, 6TH SENSE.

Called Carl Eisenberg. We both agreed that next week would be better to get together for me to take back MANHATTAN MADNESS. I'll call Tuesday.

Phil Orbanes called. He is being let go from Allstate at the end of this month, Jerry Goldstien [Goldstein?] told him. He asked Jerry about my TAM-BIT and TAKE FIVE and Jerry said I should check with Irv Lubow.
Called Irv Lubow and he was very pleasant. None of the games are moving, but they are not discontin- uing any of them. He hopes that they will do better this year. He will tell their controller, Harding Smile, to send me a report for 1970. He is busy now, so I shouldn't expect the report for a few weeks.

Wrote to following AGOG readers:
Charles F. Harrington. (Enclosed COMBINATION.)
John C. Mebane, who sent me his PEOPLE CHASE. (Enclosed COMBINATION.)
J. Conrad Schwarz, Ph. D. who, among other things, was interested in seeing the material on "Yankee Notion Cards." Told him they were in HOYLE'S GAMES by Thomas Frere.

To Claude and Anne in evening. Brought Claude a copy of S&T (#24). A friend's son is a history major, and is interested in doing A-H type games.
Claude gave me the posts from a game of TRIPTIC he bought for $1, for me to use for PLANES.

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