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Monday 6 December 1971
340th day - 25 days to come

Felicia called. Asked if I had gotten her message from Dale.
Yes, and I think it's a great ad. She agreed. Claude (her) also saw it in "The Journal of Commerce." She had a letter from Bob Edwards. PLANES is good and bad - it is fun to play but the rules are sheer torture.
Nothing on SPELLBINDER.
I SENTENCE U and ZEC-HI bounced very quickly.
They rcd. CHECKPOINT but haven't tested yet.
I told her about my letter from the lawyer on FITTING AND PROPER. The fellow from Samsonite, who she really enjoys working with, flipped over STACK STICKS. He doesn't think there will be any problem in costing it out. Samsonite will be coming out with 60 new things-- all for children. She thinks we are probably wasting our times with Research Games. She played MOVIE STARS with a friend's daughter, to whom she gave it. Both the back and the front smudged. The girl also thought the rules were very complicated for a simple game. I told her that the board for MOVIE MOGULS was good quality, but not the cards.

To Bob Hallowell in Mt. Cisco. He flipped over HABITAT and insisted on keeping it and I'll send him the rules and solution. He was not as enthusiastic over HONORABLE RELATIONS but says he likes it. He was thinking of using vinyl on vinyl instead of plastic. I left this too and will send the rest. He called his plastic man while I was there and described HABITAT to get an idea of prices, mold and a set of pcs.
He didn't have any copies of NINE OF SWORDS on hand but he will mail me 6 (the amount I asked for). The ones to Lech and Pierre were already sent out. He expects that he will sell about 12,000 copies this year.
He had a copy of Brentano's X'Mas catalog. It has SLEUTH, EXECUTIVE DECISION and NINE OF SWORDS.
He showed me a novelty someone had brought him. A large cardboard cannister is filled with plastic balls abt. 3/16 dia. In this are placed 5 pennies. The object is to reach in and find them. It is very difficult and sort of fun. It is a good item if he can lick the problem of balls getting all over the floor. I suggested a lip on the inside of the opening.
He thinks that FUN CITY is just about definite. He will have a sample made up and hand painted by his designer. He plays a game he calls THE FICTIONARY GAME, which seems to be the same as THE DICTIONARY GAME. When they play it they always have to scronge [scrounge] up paper. He would like to put out pads for playing it. That started him thinking of putting out a whole line of pad games, packaging an assortment of them in a folding kit, some-

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