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24 MONDAY - JANUARY 1972
24TH DAY - 342 DAYS TO COME

Felicia called. She still hasn't rcd. [received] the check for FITTING & PROPER and decided to call Jim Goldsberry today.
She still hasn't rcd. the contract for JET HOLIDAY. But she did receive a letter acknowledging that he has HIGH FINANCE and GIRL TALK.

Finished the equipment for FOREIGN INTRIGUE. Then started to work on the rules.

Felicia called again. She spoke to Goldsberry and he will look into the matter of the check at once. He sounded cheerful and said things were going well.
I called Bob Gellman. Martine Gilcrest can'y make it tomorrow, so we'll get together Wednesday at her house, at 10 A.M. We'll go over the slides. I'll bring the new layout of cities and routes and we'll go to the artist after Martine's.
He said that he just sent out a contract for JET HOLIDAY. He asked if it was O.K. to send one check to Felicia to be distributed, rather than sending three separate ones.

In evening working on packaging of FOREIGN INTRIGUE.

Claude called. He doubts if he will have his "Knowledge" GAME ready to send to 3M in time.
He has seen some newspaper clippings; one he clipped and the other he may still have around - this one is on THE GODFATHER GAME.
Told him that he can keep A CENTURY OF GREAT FIGHTS, since I have another.

Felicia called in the evening to invite BB and me for supper next Saturday.
I told her that I will be getting together with Bob Gellman Wednesday. She is busy all day Wednesday, so I said that I would send FOREIGN INTRIGUE to Keith Tuggle myself.
She said that Lillian Voegalin's "Mystery" GAME has already been sent in. Lillian, she said, was not completely satisfied with it. Andy Luftig has not brought in his "Mystery" GAME. She will not call him to ask for it.

(cont. from 1/25) [2/24]

In this connection Jerry and Frank had been discussing having a form that companies must sign before we'd show them anything. I said, and Frank agreed, that unless we can get companies and the public to put some value on an inventor's name, the companies would never go for this.
They were also thinking of having a form where we would attest to each other's ideas, but I said that a registered
(cont. on 1/23)