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WEDNESDAY 12 MAY 1971 132nd day - 233 days to come

Called Fay Hertog. She checked and the 25 copies are definitely on their way, but they are quite slow. I should get them in a week or two. Fabio is back but he was busy when I called. I'll call after Stationery Show.

Phil Orbanes called. He got the solutions for 34 SKIDOO from the original company (?). I told him that I already did them. He said to bring them along and maybe they'll use two of each.

BB to Goethe House to reproduce the article in DER SPIEGEL. The girl there, not Miss Steiger, said their machine was very poor and loaned the magazine to BB. To Copy Shop and had 4 copies made. The article said that ACQUIRE was the best of the 3M games but didn't have particular praise for BAZAAR. Other non-3M games mentioned were: DAS BÖRSENSPIEL (BROKER), GELD UND BÖRSE, DAS MILLIONSPIEL, WELTHANDEL, ÖL FÜR ALLE, PETROL, BIGBOSS; also MONOPOLY.

Working on S&T column; wrote up EXECUTIVE DECISION.

(cont. from 5/8) [5/11]

At 23rd St. Bookstore bought MATHEMATICAL PUZZLES by Geoffrey Mott-Smith (which Lech asked about) and MAGIC SQUARES AND CUBES by W.S. Andrews. (Got 20% off list price.)

To Goethe House and finally found the article in the Feb. 22, 1971 issue of DER SPIEGEL. Too late to get repros, so Miss Steiger put it aside for me to come in later in the week. While looking saw two games advertised in the Dec. 7, 1970 issue. HALLO BOSS - for 12 years up. A party game for enlivening the party. BIG BOSS - for clever business men full of enterprise play. The first sells for DM 19,80 and the second for DM 64,00. Both are put out by:- IWA-Rechenschieberfarbrik, F. Riehle KG, 73 Esslingen, Küferstr. 13, (Germany).

Called Jim Dunnigan and told him of my plans for my S&T column for #28; reviews of EXECUTIVE DECISION and SLEUTH, with the Supersleuth problem. He offered a copy of KURSK to the first to solve it.

Called Claude to tell him that the DUEL check came. Not in and spoke to Anne. She, Claude, Raymond, and Richie played EXECUTIVE DECISION. She thought it was more work than fun, but the others liked it.

[started 5/11]