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8 SATURDAY- DECEMBER 1973
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION- 342ND DAY- 23 DAYS TO COME

Rcd. [received] information on UNGAME.
Rcd. [received] holiday card from Djoli Kansil. Thanked me for my S&T column on MONTAGE, etc.
Rcd. [received] holiday card rom Felicia.

Wrote rules for END OF THE LINE.

At bazaar in White Plains looked at, and didn't buy:
TOP HOLE - a top is spun on a board. There are walls creating a simple maze, also holes in the center of each compartment. Object is to hold the board in the hand and maneuver the top to as high a scoring compartment as possible.
INWORD - An M.B. [Milton Bradley] game based (I am pretty sure) on a TV program. A long word is thought of that has a small word in it. The small word is written and dashes for the rest of the word. Play, (I believe) is like HANGMAN but I didn't get any details.
Bought NUMERO FUN for $2. Bought $2 worth of scrap plastic - long strips (placed in basement) and triangles. Bought a dented, but operating, two drawer 8"x5" file cabinet for $5. (Put it on piano upstairs.)

Put together 35 "Bekins Boxes" upstairs. Still have about 33 in basement to be put together - if I can find room for them.

Played GROUP THERAPY with the Sapersteins, at Phyllis' suggestion. It was rather fun.

(cont. from 12/9) [12/11]

During the day in a bookstore looked at Dover's RECREATIONAL PROBLEMS IN GEOMETRIC DISSECTIONS & HOW TO SOLVE THEM. Didn't buy it. Cost $2 and didn't look very interesting. (Later discovered that I bought it. See 8/18.)
[started 12/11]

(cont. from 12/14) [12/19]

Called Martin Gardner. Told him about Pierre's desire to have his puzzle books published but Dover won't pay royalties-only a small flat sum. Scribner's however has done very well with Dudeney's 536 PUZZLES & CURIOUS PROBLEMS and THE MOSCOW PUZZLES and has asked Martin to be on the lookout for other similar books. Martin will contact Scribner's and get back to me. I suggested telling Pierre to send two more sets of the books to Martin and he thought it a good idea.
I said I'd drop by sometime to pick up PIONERSKAJA IGROTEKA if was finished making repros. [reproductions] At first he thought that he
(cont. on 12/7)

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