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9/2
3 Monday - September 1973
Labor Day - 246th day - 119 days to come

Thought of a new arrangement for WINDFALL with all the spaces pertaining to each player in one area. Drew one up and it was much less cluttered. Played two games with BB (using the old layout copies).

Rcd. [received] a call from Pierre Berloquin (in Paris but he has a method of avoiding paying).
We talked about SIDOMINOS. I suggested a split of 2 1/2% to me and 1 1/4% for each of them Pierre said that Bloch had originally suggested and to include the entire Common Market. Pierre said that Bloch had originally suggested a split of 2% to each of the and only 1% to me and Pierre had prevailed on him to go up to the 2% for me and 1 1/2% for each of them. I said O.K.
I asked if some of the NYGA descriptive material could be included. Pierre was pretty sure it could.
I asked Pierre to let me look at the rules before they were finalized. O.K.
I told Pierre that I was trying to find out where the remaining copies of NINE OF SWORDS were.
Pierre told me that he had a copy of ÉCOPLANY that he could send me. I said that I'd like to see it, but that a copy of the rules and a description of the equipment would be probably be plenty for me.
I asked Pierre (actually before he told me about ÉCOPLANY) whether there was anything I could get for him. He is interested in getting back numbers of the JOURNAL OF RECREATIONAL MATHEMATICS from the beginning of 1971 to the present and then a subscription. He said he'd reimburse me for whatever the back numbers cost and pay for the subscription himself. I said that I'd pay for the back numbers and let him send me things against the cost. He said that it would be quite expensive and that we should start the balancing after this.
He gave me the address of "Greenwood Periodicals," the publisher.
He told me about a game SIMULATION 2 that is similar to a simulations war game except that it uses an electronic device (that doesn't work a lot of the time) instead of a die. He asked if I'd like to see it. I said only material on it, but not the game itself. SIMULATION 1 is played with a computer.
Pierre may be coming to the U.S. in connection with a science fiction magazine that he may be translating. Invited him to stay here.

Called Claude to see if he was coming to Felicia's tomorrow to sign the DUEL contract. (I'm to call tomorrow at about 2 to check.)

Called Jerry D'Arcey to see how Susie Thibault was feeling. (On 8/12 Jerry had said she was very sick.) She is O.K. and
(cont. on 9/2)

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