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2 TUESDAY * OCTOBER 1973
275TH DAY * 90 DAYSTO COME

Rcd. [received] 1974 Child Craft catalog. Among other things contained: ON SETS, SENTENCE CUBE GAME, TUF, NUMBLE, SPLIT WORDS, PERFECTION, KLIK, THE DOT GAME, NETRESULTS, QUBIC, MATOCA, CONNECT, MIND MAZE, FLORAL DERANGEMENT, LOTS 'O SPOTS, SHREWD MOVE, THE UPTIGHT SPIDER, IMPASSE, TENNIS ANYONE?, GREAT DOWNHILL SKI GAME, MONTAGE, VIBRATION DERBY GAME, GOLF-O-MATIC, HOLEHOG, TALLY HI!, TILT-A-BIT, THINK A DOT.

BB retyped part of the TOTALLY-- rules and I got repros [reproductions] of the whole set. Put black cover contact on the SHAPE AND SHATTER box.

Picked up Felicia at her office. She had a call from Burt Huber.
The models of THE 31ST HEX and PUSHOVER reached him. Orders for the puzzle-games are coming in very well. They have shipped the first production. As soon as the next run is ready we will get our samples.
To Kohner in New Jersey. Meeting with A. Stubbmann, V.P. Research & Development.
He kept PAIR OFF for testing. He is only interested in the solitaire. He was interested in OVER 'N OVER, again only the puzzle, but I wasn't able to come up with a solution. Took it back with me to note a solution and make a new board without the corner paths. ECLIPSE; again he wants a solution. SHAPE AND SHATTER; wants a simple ten minute game for the "pop-o-matic" series (I believe he said the patent has another 7 years to go). He spent some time going over possibilities with me and I took it home with me to work on it. The plastic pcs. [pieces] that Hallmark made up were attractive but he didn't care for the white dots in the center of each unit - an added expense.
He didn't care for TOTALLY--, TRAVELINE, and BREAKDOWN and I decided not to show him IMPULSE, TRIPLE CROSS, and FREE FORM.
Altho consideration is for 1975 he would like the things back as soon as possible. In answer to Felicia's question about royalties he said that will be negotiated after they accept the idea. Only 4 things have been taken for from outside in quite a few years. We signed a give-away disclosure form which he said that General Foods insisted on. He also said that no one had ever accused Kohner of stealing anything.
Drove Felicia to her apt. [apartment] I took all of my models home as well as Claude's ECLIPSE.

Called Claude to tell him about the ECLIPSE solution. He'll have it for me next time we get together.
He saw a horse race game at Joblot called AUCTION RACE. It sells for $2.00 and there were plenty of them there.

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English 2 TUESDAY * OCTOBER 1973
275TH DAY * 90 DAYSTO COME


Rcd. [received] 1974 Child Craft catalog. Among other things contained:
ON SETS, SENTENCE CUBE GAME, TUF, NUMBLE, SPLIT WORDS,
PERFECTION, KLIK, THE DOT GAME, NETRESULTS, QUBIC, MATOCA,
CONNECT, MIND MAZE, FLORAL DERANGEMENT, LOTS 'O SPOTS,
SHREWD MOVE, THE UPTIGHT SPIDER, IMPASSE, TENNIS ANYONE?,
GREAT DOWNHILL SKI GAME, MONTAGE, VIBRATION DERBY GAME,
GOLF-O-MATIC, HOLEHOG, TALLY HI!, TILT-A-BIT, THINK A DOT.
BB retyped part of the TOTALLY-- rules and I got repros [reproductions] of
the whole set. Put black cover contact on the SHAPE AND SHATTER
box.
Picked up Felicia at her office. She had a call from Burt Huber.
The models of THE 31ST HEX and PUSHOVER reached him.
Orders for the puzzle-games are coming in very well.
They have shipped the first production. As soon as the next
run is ready we will get our samples.
To Kohner in New Jersey. Meeting with A. Stubbmann, V.P.
Research & Development.
He kept PAIR OFF for testing. He is only interested in the
solitaire. He was interested in OVER 'N OVER, again only
the puzzle, but I wasn't able to come up with a solution.
Took it back with me to note a solution and make a new board
without the corner paths. ECLIPSE; again he wants a
solution. SHAPE AND SHATTER; wants a simple ten minute
game for the "pop-o-matic" series (I believe he said the
patent has another 7 years to go). He spent some time going
over possibilities with me and I took it home with me to
work on it. The plastic pcs. [pieces] that Hallmark made up were
attractive but he didn't care for the white dots in the center
of each unit - an added expense.
He didn't care for TOTALLY--, TRAVELINE, and BREAKDOWN and
I decided not to show him IMPULSE, TRIPLE CROSS, and FREE FORM.
Altho consideration is for 1975 he would like the things
back as soon as possible. In answer to Felicia's question
about royalties he said that will be negotiated after they
accept the idea. Only 4 things have been taken for from outside
in quite a few years. We signed a give-away disclosure
form which he said that General Foods insisted on. He also said
that no one had ever accused Kohner of stealing anything.
Drove Felicia to her apt. [apartment] I took all of my models home as well
as Claude's ECLIPSE.
Called Claude to tell him about the ECLIPSE solution. He'll
have it for me next time we get together.
He saw a horse race game at Joblot called AUCTION RACE.
It sells for $2.00 and there were plenty of them there.
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