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14 Friday - December 1973
348th day - 17 days to come

Rcd. [received] X'Mas [Christmas] cards from Mike Alber & Gene Primoff of Quantra Development Corp. - BEAT-THE-COMPUTER.

Read over a book on MACARTHUR. Found 4 possible battles to use: "Retreat to Bataan," "New Guinea," "Invasion of Luzon," "Landing at Inchon." (Actually the same 4 that Al Nofi suggested on 9/17.) Called Bob Champer and left word to have him call me for his ideas on which 3 to take.

(cont. from 12/15) [12/18]

Felicia called and spoke to BB while I was out. She wanted to give a game as a gift and asked BB whether she should give FITTING & PROPER and THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS. BB at first suggested HOLIDAY, which Felicia ignored, and then said that THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS was more colorful.

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Met Bob Champer and, with Al Nofi's help, he picked out three books from me to use for MACARTHUR:- "The Fall of the Philippines" and "Victory in Papua" - both from the Dept. of the Army - and "The Korean War," a paperback by Matthew Ridgway. Borrowed them, leaving charge slips.
We'll both read up on the 3 battles and he'll call me after New Year.

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

again in about a week. || Pierre also would like Martin to do LE LIVRE DES JEUX. Pierre has been making a living with his writing, not having had any success with games themselves. He has just completed a book on the TAROT - the games that are played with it (at least that was the impression I got). He said that games with the TAROT deck - one will be packaged with his book - are popular in France. He is working on a book of self I-Q testing. He is familiar with the ones published here. He is finally going to finish do a book on solitaire games which he has had in mind for some time. I gave him permission to use COMBINATION (which he wasn't familiar with) if he wishes and told him it was in S&T about #21.
He has an article coming out in SCIENCE ET VIE - can't remember the topic - which I asked him to send me a repro [reproduction] of.
At the end of the our conversation I again brought up that I'd like to keep sending him copies of S&T rather than his subscribing - so that I won't feel guilty asking him to send me things. He'll think about it and we'll talk about it when he calls me next week.

(cont. on 12/8)