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6 SUNDAY - JANUARY 1974
FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY - 359 DAYS TO COME

Made another two "Spy Lists" for FOREIGN INTRIGUE and finished up
the deck of "Available Agents."

Call from Claude. Nothing specially about games.

(cont. from 1/7) [1/7]

From my father got translations of CONTACTIC, TOPOLOGIK, SPECTRUM,
SIROCCO, WIEKSLAG. (Discarded the repro of the last two since I
have the original.) Took back the repro of ZIG-ZAG, the Danish
game.

About 5:30 BB got a call from a Mr. Cirker of Dover Publications. He
said he'd call tomorrow.

TIMES has a Marlboro ad that listed: "A HISTORY OF CHESS By J.
Gizycki. Lavishly illustrated history of chess and its development
through the ages - ranges widely from the mathematics of chess to
great players in history, 'live chess,' chess in poetry & prose, more.
Over 450 Illus. in Gravure, 9 Full Color Tip Ins; 8 3/8" x 11", Special Import $14.98."

(cont. from 1/12) [1/14]
To S.P.I. "Howie," in the office next to Jim D. had a game
ZODIAK STAR CHESS which was addressed to me there. No
letter.
Took the following S.P.I games: BREAKOUT & PURSUIT, 1812, EL ALAMEIN,
NAPOLEAN AT WATERLOO, ARDENNED OFFENSIVE, DARK AGE. Due to a hold-
up on the supplies, only the last one had a die.
Since they have a good supply of the paper boxes with art work
the following 3 games will not be put in plastic boxes for some time:-
BARBAROSSA, LEIPZIG, NORMANDY.
Took three copies of S&T #38.
Ran off repros of the following games from GAMES WITH PENCIL & PAPER
(5 sets):- ELEUSIS, CRYSTALS, HEX (on 2 half pages with other
games), MIDDLEMAN, AGGRESSION, and SUBTERFUGE.

At my father's played 3 games of 500 RUMMY.
Rcd. a package from A.H. with BUSINESS STRATEGY,
BASEBALL STRATEGY, FOOTBALL STRATEGY, RICHTHOFFEN'S WAR.
Also glossies of the above and also OUTDOOR SURVIVAL

In POST an ad for "International House of Pancakes" offered a
game PASSPORT for children.
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