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ST. FRANCIS XAVIER * 337TH DAY * 28 DAYS TO COME<br> | ST. FRANCIS XAVIER * 337TH DAY * 28 DAYS TO COME<br> | ||
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Downtown about 10 and stopped in R.G.I. <u>Bob Gellman</u> told me that <br> | |||
he arranged with <u>Bill Tyler</u> to demonstrate at Brentano's for<br> | |||
three Wednesdays, starting this week. I told him that I had<br> | |||
arranged with <u>Dorothy Shapiro</u> for 12/10, 12/11, and 12/12. He asked<br> | |||
me to come this Wednesday at 11 and we'll straighten it out. O.K.<br> | |||
To <u>Felicia</u>. She had called BB to see if I were coming. BB told her<br> | |||
that I was; also the she rcd. the royalty check <s>for</s> from Hallmark<br> | |||
- $1,421.50.<br> | |||
After he was about h alf an hour late <u>Dick Harris</u> called him and<br> | |||
I told him that I was leaving the rules for <u>TRICKY THREES</u> and<br> | |||
<u>RALLY</u>. (Made repros of the two of them.) He said that next week<br> | |||
would be O.K. for <u>SUPER GHOSTS</u> and <u>END OF THE LINE</u>.<br> | |||
There was a book on his desk - <u>GAMES FOR PLANES</u>. Looked at it. Most<br> | |||
were standards or alphabetical pastimes. One was <u>BRENDA'S GAME</u> - <br> | |||
2 play (why not more?) and each writes a full alphabet at the<br> | |||
ends of a sheet of paper. <s>Players in turn write a word and</s><br> | |||
The first player <s>then</s> writes a word in the center (limit of length?)<br> | |||
and crosses off the letters on his alphabet. Then new words are <br> | |||
added crossword style. The first to use all his letters, or the one <br> | |||
with the least letters when <s>the Bank</s> no more can be used, is the <br> | |||
winner. (Not sure I've got it all.)<br> | |||
Took a copy of the old <u>BRIDGETTE</u> in the brown overbox, telling the secretary to tell Phil<br> | |||
Back to <u>Felicia</u>. <u>Dick Harris</u> came in. We played 3-hand (with me playing<br> | |||
most of Felicia's hand) <u>SPACE</u>. (Felicia didn't like the name.)<br> | |||
Dick liked the game but after we played it he said that M.B. has <br> | |||
a game that is different <s>in</s> physically <s>different</s>, but quite<br> | |||
similar in the way that it develops. PCs., apparently, are fastened<br> | |||
together vertically and horizontally and if you play correctly<br> | |||
you can run <s>an</s> a number of pcs. at one time. Dick said that<br> | |||
the name was on my rules and Felicia guessed <u>TOWERS</u>.<br> | |||
Later Dick said that the game was done by <u>Marvin Glass</u>. It is<br> | |||
being introduced in Europe and even England is not sure<br> | |||
(Arrow is M.B.'s subsidiary). The U.S. is very doubtful.<br> | |||
Felicia asked <s>me (before Dick came)</s> if we should drop <u>SPACE</u>. Dick<br> | |||
said no, to go right ahead and he suggested that Lakeside might like it.<br> | |||
Felicia said that we had originally done it on order for them.<br> | |||
Before Dick came Felicia asked me if <u>SUPER SPY</u> was anything like<br> | |||
<u>MINEFIELD</u>. Told her I didn't think so, but I'd check it. Then she<br> | |||
asked Dick about <u>SUPER SPY</u> and he said it was being dropped. They<br> | |||
thought it would do well at first, but then they came out with<br> | |||
<u>MANHUNT</u> and buyers thought they were similar - altho they are not - <br> | |||
and wanted the new one.<br> | |||
After Dick left, Felicia told me that she had been at the Hallmark Gallery.<br> | |||
The girl there recommended <u>MOEBIES</u>, and when Felicia spoke to her<br> | |||
she said it was selling the best.<br> | |||
Felicia called Lakeside. <u>Stan Harfenist</u> not in and she told<br> | |||
(cont on 12/2) | |||