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11 TUESDAY - JULY 1972
193RD DAY - 173 DAYS TO COME

Rcd. THE GAMESLETTER (#38). Mentions some catalogs
rcd. including "World Wide Games, Inc (the Delaware outfit)
which has expensive wooden games (among others HELMA and
TREK - a 3D TICK TACK TOE variation), Big League Game Co.
(BIG LEAGUE MANAGER, PRO BASKETBALL, PRO FOOTBALL, PRO BOXING,
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL, PRO GOLF GAME, PRO HOCKEY, and
catalog is supposed to have much more); Publishers Central Bureau
(TRI-TAC-TOE, BRIDGETTE, THE NEXT PRESIDENT, and others);
Wff 'N Proof (nothing new).
In a vignette of Anthony Dickens he (Anthony) mentions my
hospitality in his trip to the U.S. A GUIDE TO FAIRY CHESS is of course
featured.
A reader asks for any info he can get on programs for
playing SPACE WAR, which is played using a cathode ray
tube. He mentions an article on it in TIME on similar
games. Looked for it and found it in the 5/22/72 issue.
It is a series of games packeged together by Magnavox, under
the overall name of ODYSSEY.

To Leonard Willett's to look over my 1969 & 1970 tax returns.
1969 was in prettygood shape but the accountant goofed
up my 1970. I'll have to go there again next week.
Called the I.R.S. in the afternoon and made date for Aug. 3.
Called Leonard to tell him.

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