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--- Revision as of 17:08:00, 17 June 2025 by Lboland

Created page with "17 Sunday - June 1973 <br>Father's Day - Trinity Sunday - 168th Day - 197 Days to Come ---- (cont. from 6/22) [6/22] ---- Met <u>Walter Dykowski</u> and he invited BB, Dana, and me to join him and his wife, Maxine, for breakfast tomorrow morning. In one of the seminar rooms there was a small display of ancient games, in pictures and a few actual artifacts. One picture had the following discription: "<u>MEHAN</u> - Above the Egyptian game of Mehan (Snake). The..."
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 To seminar conducted by <u>Len Lakofka</u>. Some notes: -
-A.H.'s <u>THE GENERAL</u> builds up word-of-mouth city by city
+A.H.'s [Avalon Hill's] <u>THE GENERAL</u> builds up word-of-mouth city by city
 as players P.B.M.
 <br><u>DIPLOMACY</u> packages have a contact list packed in. There is
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 on <u>DIPLOMACY</u> - Roger Verhulst's.)
 <br>Another part of the show for the public is a game playing
-convention - <u>GETTYSBURG</u>, <u>WATERLOO</u>, <u>STALINGRAD</u> (3 of A.H.'s simplest),
+convention - <u>GETTYSBURG</u>, <u>WATERLOO</u>, <u>STALINGRAD</u> (3 of A.H.'s [Avalon Hill's] simplest),
 <u>SORRY</u>, <u>RISK</u>, <u>CLUE</u>, <u>SCRABBLE</u>, <u>TWIXT</u> (but not <u>ACQUIRE</u>. Later
 I spoke to Lakofka about this and he said he'd try to organize
 one.)
-<br>Parker has family games. 3M are more for thinkers.
+<br>Parker [Parker Brothers] has family games. 3M are more for thinkers.
 <br>Gaming conventions around country are branching from war games.
 <br>Companies could organize their own games and this would be