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11/19
10 FRIDAY - NOVEMBER 1972
MARTIN LUTHER - BORN 1483 - 315TH DAY - 51 DAYS TO COME

To Benson & Bowles at 10 for meeting with Claude, Wald, Arthur and Howard Wexler. They are not going ahead with the game program in 1973. They are keeping Claude's auction GAME, the Amber- stone's THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD and THE INVISIBLE MAN, and my HAVING A WONDERFUL TIME. They, plus BALANCE OF POWER, should be com- ing out in 1974.

Howard said that HAVING A WONDERFUL TIME will be made into a stockmarket [stock market] game - possible name BLUE CHIPS. They are adding a board for laying out the cards. It also has the status for the 4 periods in graph form, with some explanation of the reason. At the popular request of the testers he added some "wild cards that allowed taking cards from any desired opponent. To keep score chips will be used.

Arthur and Wald got back THE NEXT PRESIDENT with finished art work on a thick cardboard. Claude got back TEN LITTLE INDIANS and UPSTAGE, both with finished artwork. I got back FUN CITY, INVASION, UP THE ORGANIZATION, and WAR & PEACE. The last one had some artwork pasted on top of my thin board; also a box.

Wexler is leaving HASBRO so that he can make more money as an independent game inventor. I asked him who we could contact at HASBRO about getting copies of our games when (and if) they come out in 1974. He'll be working with them, he is sure, since he [is] leaving on good terms. As soon as he gets set up in New York he'll send us his card.

A lot of our rules were not returned. He'll send them all to Wald.

Gave Claude a check for $51.14 as his share of the 3rd quar- ter EXECUTIVE DECISION royalties.

At Doubleday bought a copy of CHESS SETS by F. Lanier Graham, for $1.98.

Met Marvin Kaye at his shared Carnegie Hall studio. He returned my books 75 YEARS OF FUN and YESTERDAYS GAMES. He also gave m a copy of CHILDREN'S GAMES AROUND THE WORLD. Also a copy of the Bibliography for his book A TOY IS BORN (filed in '72 Misc.). The 2 young lady editors at Stein & Day would like to meet me. We'll arrange something after my vacation. He suggested that I bring them a copy of AGOG. His book will be out for Toy Fair.

At Childcraft on 58th St. saw TAU (Four Generations). There is a board as shown with [illegible word crossed out] 21 peg holes. There are two sets of wood pegs (one set shown) started in grooves. One has a light wood in the middle, the other dark. [Drawing of peg board. Rectangular with a column on each side of the square middle. The columns have 7 smaller rectangles, on the left they are plain line rectangles, on the right they are each divided in thirds with colors filled in. The middle square has an arrangement of dots representing the peg holes, in rows: 3, 5, 5, 5, 3.] Players in turn place only one of their six colored pegs (the black-white cannot be placed until the other six have been placed) with either end down in any hole. The side end in the hole does not show. After a peg has (cont on 11/9)