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19 WEDNESDAY - APRIL 1972
PATRIOTS' DAY (MAINE) - 110TH DAY - 256 DAYS TO COME

With Mary McKee to Ch. 13 [channel 13] for 8 minute segment on the "Louise" show. She wasn't there and I was interviewed by a young fellow with a beard. We both took off our jackets and did the segment in shirtsleeves.
Discussed the Xerox exhibit a little but most of program segment was on ACQUIRE and SLEUTH and AGOG.//ACQUIRE board now much improved.
Back to exhibit hall and mounted ACQUIRE and SLEUTH.
Press luncheon in private room of "Shakespeare." Talking with three reporters mainly. One Mildred Mikkanen of the TIMES-UNION took pages of notes. Her article will be in the Saturday supplement and she promised to send me a tear-sheet. Gave her my card.
Back to exhibit hall. About 60 kids there. They weren't bad except that they threw the bean bags like baseballs and broke about 3. Also one ORBIT (which arrived this morning) was broken and another swiped.
John Rasor will have signs made "Underhand throwing only" made up for the bean bag games. He seemed happy with the show.
The Xerox photographer took a lot of pictures and I asked Mary McKee about sending me some. She said she'd send me contact prints of all of them to pick out those I wanted enlarged; but to call her collect if she forgot.
After the kids and reporters left I put together a construction with STRATO TAC-TICS and it was placed on an old table with a plastic case on it.

Looked in department stores. Nothing.
Going over the unused games and the unused parts of the others. Packed some in my valise and others in a carton for Bernie to take back with him.
To a fancy restaurant with John Rasor, Herb, Jackie, Bernie, and John's wife. Gave a copy of AGOG to John and his wife. They seemed glad to get it.
Gave John my bill for $700 and I'll mail him my out of pocket expense account.
Called BB. No game activity other than a call from Claude.

(cont. from 4/20)

Dynamic Designs is doing a GAME based on feeling (touching?).

Called Bob Gellman (who called me Tuesday). He and his partner are not satisfied with SCOTLAND YARD. They want my opinion of it as a consultant - for pay. Then if I think I can fix it up, we'll discuss a flat fee or a royalty arrangement. I'll go there Monday at 3.
I asked about HOLIDAY and he still hasn't rcd. the slides from G.A.F. He is thinking of calling them in Portland Oregon.

(cont. on 4/18)