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11/4
5 MONDAY * NOVEMBER 1973
309TH DAY * 56 DAYS TO COME

Rcd. [received] 3rd quarter royalty report from 3M.
ACQUIRE - - - - - - - - - $2,936.49
BAZAAR - - - - - - - - - - (2.56)
MONAD - - - - - - - - - - - 154.44
VENTURE - - - - - - - - - - 430.33
EXECUTIVE DECISION 1,456.59
SLEUTH - - - - - - - - - - -743.92 ((Deposited in Knickerbocker))
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,719.10

Third Quarter Foreign Royalty not rcd. [received] as of Oct. 29, 1973.

Paid to Sidney Sackson $4,289.32
Paid to I-S ULTD, Inc. $1,429.78

Rcd. [received] an ad folder from Macy's. One page had the following:
MONOPOLY, SCRABBLE, RPM, RISK, CHALLENGE FOOTBALL FACTS IN FIVE, FEUDAL, OUTDOOR SURVIVAL, ACQUIRE. (Filed in '73 Misc. [1973 miscellaneous])
Rcd. [received] G & P #18. Articles on TWIXT, DARTS, DIPLOMACY, 3-UP, TOURNAMENT GOLF, TEST YOUR LOGIC (Book), SMOG, SCRABBLE, CHESS, GO.
Letter from Terry Donnely, the inventor of DECLINE & FALL, discussing my "comment in the July issue." (See 7/26).
Ads for CHAOS, POUNCE, 3 UP, and SPECTRA (by Airfix); TOURNAMENT GOLF, JACKPOT, and MONEY GO ROUND (by Ariel); THE LONDON GAME, THE GREAT GAME OF BRITAIN, AMBUSH, and SIGMA FILE (by Condor); MASTER MIND (by Vic-Toy); CABBIE, FRENCH CHATTER, SPANISH CHATTER, and STOCKBROKER.
"Editorial" asked readers to send in their old boxed games to start a "game library".

Call from Felicia. We Calculated % changes in my 3M games over last year for her.
Told her about ad for ART DARTS in yesterday's paper.
2nd call. She had a letter from Bob Johnson saying that he didn't have any games from her to evaluate. Previously he had indicated that they weren't looking.
We discussed what she could send of mine. Came up with PROFIT and SPECTRUM. She was sure that Bob Johnson had seen it. I thought that he hadn't, and certainly not since I made the last change. (Checked in archives and they never saw it at Hallmark at all.)
3rd call. PROFIT was in too bad shape to send today. I'll take it with me next time I am in and redo it.
She was thinking of sending ESPIONAGE (see 4/27). Noticed the Parker possibility of ESPIONAGE and realized that it must be what later came out as THE SIGMA FILE.
Told her that Hallmark had never seen SPECTRUM and she agreed that she was mistaken. In connection with Hallmark's new concern with the names of the games (when she asked Bob Johnson whether what Burt Huber had said applied to things submitted to him, he said he was afraid that it did) I told her that there is a German game SPECTRUM and that SPECTRA just came out in England.
She also sent HARDHAT to Bob Johnson.
(Cont. on 11/4)