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20 SUNDAY - JANUARY 1974
SECOND SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY - 20TH DAY - 345 DAYS TO COME

Played I DECLARE with BB. I won 2 out of three.

(cont. [continued] from 1/21) [1/21]

Mannie (or was it Carl) said that 3M was not only staying with games but was going ahead with new products, including some fancy and expensive wood items.
Mannie told Phil that he'd like to develop staples that last as long as the 3M games.
Dynamic Design has excellent manufacturing facilities and probably some of the Reiss games will be manufactured there. This will take away some of Carl's authority.
I mentioned CONQUEST (which I saw at his office). He saw an ad for it in a chess magazine and sent for it. It came in a week.
CARTEL sold the best of all the new "Gamut" games - above 15,000. The others - INFINITY, MONTAGE and REALM - sold about 12,500.
Phil heard, from a source that wants to be kept secret, that S.P.I. was over $100,000 in debt at the middle of 1973.
When in London Phil got together with Graeme Levin. He is very optimistic about the future of G&P. He thinks there is a good chance that it will be available in the U.S. for individual copies. Reiss may be interested in the distribution.
I said that I thought that Graeme was moving more into agenting, Phil said that Graeme claims to have placed 8 games.
Graeme speaks well of me. He is disappointed that I don't care for his SPECULATE more.
Phil bought copies of SIGMA FILE and MASTER MIND. He saw AVIATION which looked like a new game to him bit probably is the same as the Gibson game I have. Paid Graeme will buy it and ship it to Phil and will send him others that he thinks are interesting.
The first issue of G&P was 35,000.
I forgot to ask Phil what was the status of Graeme's effort to act as an agent for the "Gamut" games:- CARTEL, etc. He thanked me for the S.P.I. games I brought him on 1/7.
Told him that because of the disappointments with Hallmark and with the p&p games I might look into going back to engineering - at least for a while.
He invited me to lunch sometime next week. Instead he'll this Thurs. if he's not too busy.

In TIME an article in "Education" mentioned a game called FUTURE, played on a MONOPOLY type board. (Filed in '74 misc. [1974 miscellaneous])

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