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30 WEDNESDAY - AUGUST 1972
243RD DAY - 123 DAYS TO COME

Felicia called to ask which magazine I was doing a consulting job for (WOMAN'S DAY). There is a possibility she may be able to get me some more assignments and she wants to be able to say what I have done. She was sorry about Arthur's fall but was annoyed at having to look for POWER. I mentioned that I had reviewed EVADE for BOOK WORLD in- stead of POINT OF LAW. She was annoyed that I hadn't done IMAGE. Told her that I didn't have it. She said that she gave me the rules and some of the cards last year (later checked and it was BID AND BLUFF) but then agreed that I had to play before writing a review. Told her that I was going to see Al Richter Friday. She said to tell him she tried to place his games Monday, but no success.

Rcd. [received] a letter from Bob Lanzon of NOST, with my membership card. He rcd. a copy of GREATER ROCHESTER COMMERCE with the writeup on me! He plans to run it in NOSTALGIA. A lot of the members would like to try some of my games by mail, with me.

Working on game diary. Discovered that I had an entry of 3/23 for THE STOCK MARKET GAME in the index cards, but couldn't find it on that date, or any other date with a 23 or around that time. (At end of year discovered it was 6/23) While looking found an entry on COUP D'ÉTAT (4/24) from ALBION magazine. It was reviewed in issue #28, which I haven't seen.

Arthur called in the evening. On the 6 P.M. Ch. 2 news they had a piece on adult games. First they had a buyer from Hammeker Schlammer talking about a upsurge in expensive gambling games like ROULETTE and somethings from Japan. Then they had a shot of the Greenwich Village apt. [apartment] of a stockbroker, Stephen Grossberg. He was playing JUMPIN with a girlfriend. He said that he liked playing full information games where skill was the determining factor, such as JUMPIN and TWIXT. But there is a great game with some luck