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Title
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1973_Sackson_380_December 26.jpg
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Creator
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Sid Sackson
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Date
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1973
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Type
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image
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Format
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.jpg
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Source
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Box 2, Object 1, Sid Sackson collection
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Language
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English
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Coverage
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1973
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Rights
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The Strong, Rochester, New York.
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transcription
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English
26 Wednesday - December 1973
St. Stephen - Washington Crossed the Delaware 1776 - 360th day - 5 days to come
Rcd. [received] telephones call from Willard Allphin who had written to me
concerning MONOPOLY (see 9/22/70). He has gotten
THE SATURDAY REVIEW interested in his article on MONOPOLY. He
asked if I had done any further checking on the story. Told
him "no" that I was too busy trying to make a living. Told
him that he should definitely get a look at Darrow's patent.
He has been talking to Randy Barton and has an appointment
tomorrow. He'll ask him to show him a copy. I asked Willard to
let me know the issue if it is published.
At Goldsmiths bought another dozen (6 pairs) book-ends for $3.00.
Priced the expanding folders files. They were $3.30 with a top flap
and $3.00 without (much higher than the $1.00 Phil Orbanes had
told me).
Called Phil Orbanes and asked him about the expanding files. He'll
check with his secretary and call me tomorrow. He still thinks
that the price was about $1.00.
He asked if I could get S.P.I. games, I said "yes - within
reason." Tomorrow he'll let me know the titles he'd like.
NEW YORK Magazine had a crossword puzzle with 7 different
kinds of clues, a lot of which I couldn't understand. (Filed
in '73 Misc. [1973 miscellaneous])
Philip Kaplan here with a puzzle he called JIGSAW MOSAIC. There
is a field with spaces set together like haphazard bricks
[drawing of an arrangement of rectangles oriented in multiple directions]
with a number of empty spaces before in the
layout. There are tiles in three colors which have
to be placed in the spaces so that no two of the same
color share an edge. He didn't have a model, but had
a xeroxed copy which I filled out using numbers. Solved it
quite easily.
He asked my opinion of its commercial possibilities. I told
him about the other puzzle based on colors not being ne allowed
to be next to each other, including LUCKY 13 PUZZLES and
my SHAPE AND SHATTER. Told him that there certainly were
no legal problems with his being a knock-off, but that I
felt that manufacturers would not find it different
enough to be exciting. I told him that I thought that Felicia
would feel that way too, but that there was no harm in her his
checking.
In the conversation it came up that he had had three books of
puzzles published by Harper & Row: - POSERS, MORE POSERS, and
PUZZLE ME THIS. The first, he said, was the best and sold about
20,000. They have also been put out in paperback - the first two
by McFadden (spelling?) and the third by I don't remember.
He offered to send me one of the books but I said that, since he
had bought THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS, I would buy a copy myself.
He bought a copy of THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS at Brentano's (because it
was more colorful than FITTING & PROPER). He "solved" the puzzle by
(cont. on 12/25)
