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FRIDAY 12 MARCH 1971

71st day - 294 days to come

While fooling around with a gadget Felicia once brought us I thought of a game idea - possible name PRATFALL. The gadget is a wooden figure on feet with a spring mounted inside. When it is pushed down a flat wood piece projects from the head. When released it jumps into the air, the further down the pushing the higher the jump. I placed lines on the wood pieces with the following values 1-5-10-25-50. Players in turn take the figure and push it down to any line they wish and then release it. If it falls over their turn is done. If it stands upright they score the value of the line they used. They can continue, but if the figure falls they lose all their score in this turn.
Played around with it quite a bit, including when Paul & Edith Slotkin came over. Have to put two fin- ger holds on the bottom so that players cannot cheat by holding it higher and easing the upward movement.

(cont. from 1/18) [3/10]

Told Felicia that I had given Mary the wording from the 3M contract. She said that was a good idea. She thanked me for telling her about the problem in the contract. Before I called her Felicia had called Mary. She got the im- pression that TEMPO, etc. were being dropped. I think that what Mary meant is the peg puzzles, rather than the peg games, or at least that is what she told me.
Felicia warned me to watch out for Dynamic Enterprises. They are probably going to be removed from handling WHO CAN BEAT NIXON? They only were given two (true) and probably won't get any more.
We discussed whether I should work on CINEMA and NOMINATION first or the Coca Cola GAME. Decided that, tho she still wants the latter, I'll work on the others first.

At our meeting with Mary, she asked what the status of FOCUS was at Whitman. If we ever get it back she'd love to do it.

Ken Morgan called. He'd like to get together to talk, but wouldn't tell me specifically what he has in mind. Told him that I'd probably be in town next Friday (3/26) and I'll call him Thursday. He'll take me to lunch.
I asked about getting a copy of MOVIE MOGULS. He only has one, and he has to give that to "Mr. Tower" of F.A.O. Schwartz, Brentano's will be displaying the game in two windows, uptown & downtown.

[started 3/10]