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SUNDAY 30 MAY Whitsunday Feast of Weeks--Shebuoth 1971 150th day - 215 days to come

Phil Orbanes called. He developed something for Hoi-Poloi which they want to call ORBIT. I told him about Parker's and Arrco's use of the name. Their lawyers found Parker's appli- cation and an objection. He asked, as possible alternates if they can't use ORBIT, about REVOLVER, REVOLUTION, and WHIRL. These are O.K. as far as I know. He is going to have Bob Hallowell call me next Tuesday when Bob visits him and set up a date to see MANHATTAN MADNESS. Bob is interested in doing something of his. He also [crossed out] reminded me to contact Carl Eisenberg for him to come here. I said that I didn't have much finished things around, but we agreed that I could discuss ideas with Carl. He asked me about TROMINO GO, thinking it would be a good thing for Hoi-Poloi to put out in wood. Told him that it had just been signed up with X. Told him that I could come up with other strategy games using small pieces. They can be colored or printed he said. He is going to arrange a date with John Anderson towards the end of June to play KING HAMLET. He suggested discussing our plans then. I thought that wouldn't be fair to John & that we should get together ourselves. He agreed. Dale played BROADSIDE with Mark.

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X-CHANGE-WORD. She really like the latter. // Bought her sandwich.

To Skunk Works. Spoke to Red a short while. Got FANTOCCINI and LUFTWAFFE. Red said that the end of June is O.K. for my next column.

Rcd. a letter from Arlan Tietel confirming our talk on 5/20. Rcd. a letter from { Robert Braunwart III, [address], Seattle, Washington 98105 He is working on a book of "Configurational Games" (no pub- lisher as of yet) and would like permission to use 6 games from AGOG: SUIT YOURSELF, SOLITAIRE DICE, PLANK, NETWORK, CUTTING CORNERS, and LAST WORD. Rcd. a spring-summer catalog from F.A.O. Schwartz. Contains PENTAGON, MASTERPIECE, AD-LIB, COMPUTAMATIC BASEBALL, WILD LIFE, BOUNDARY, I PREDICT, PHILOSOPHER'S KNOT, PGA TOURNAMENT GOLF, SMOG, DIRTY WATER, BRIDGETTE. (Book discarded. Pages with I PREDICT, PHILOSOPHER'S KNOT, and PGA TOURNAMENT GOLF put in 1971 Ad Clips Folder.)

To Al & Adela Richter. Looked at Stephen Barr's book A MISCELLANY OF PUZZLES, MATHEMATICAL AND OTHERWISE. It did not seem to be interesting to me.

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