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--- Revision as of 17:59:51, 13 August 2023 by Lboland
+++ Revision as of 12:44:48, 5 October 2023 by LKinsman

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-SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 1972
+'''3 SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 1972'''
 <br>FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY - 247TH DAY - 119 DAYS TO COME
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-Rcd. [received] the expense check for $107.40 from <u>WOMAN'S DAY</u>.
+Rcd. [received] the expense check for $107.40 from <u>''WOMAN'S DAY''</u>.
 Rcd. a vacation post card from <u>Pierre Berloquin</u>. Said he'd
 send a long letter from Paris.
-Rcd. <u>NOSTALGIA</u> #147, with <u>DYNAMO CHESS</u> explained by
+Rcd. <u>''NOSTALGIA''</u> #147, with <u>DYNAMO CHESS</u> explained by
 <u>Phil Cohen</u>. And #148 - more on <u>DYNAMO CHESS</u>.
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 <u>Claude</u> didn't have <u>SPLIT PERSONALITY</u> ready yet and Wexler is expecting
 it next week.
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+(cont. from 9/7)[9/7]
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+[drawing of 4 jigsaw puzzle pieces arranged in a square]  <br>
+on each edge, except at the outside of the overall <br>
+layout. There is a pattern - bodies and long arms <br>
+leading to hands, etc. - that can only be put to- <br>
+gether in one way. They both said that this was <br>
+based on the MacMahon squares.
-(cont. from 9/7)[9/7]
+The squares and also the MacMahon cubes, the 30 cubes that
+Martin wrote up for <u>Frank Armbruster</u> as <u>THE TOWER GAME</u> last
+year, are in the book <u>''MATHEMATICAL PASTIMES''</u> by <u>P.A. MacMahon</u>. It
+contains the most complete study of putting together different
+shapes so that colors match at the edges. It is out of print
+but Martin says it is available. He is trying to get Dover to
+put it out.
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+<u>MacMahon</u> had only one thing put out commercially - a
-[drawing of 4 puzzle pieces arranged in a square]
+(cont. on 9/2)