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24 THURSDAY - JANUARY 1974
24TH DAY - 341 DAYS TO COME

At Job Lot bought 4 more of the 5¢ plastic boxes. On Reade St. bought 3 more packages of the Lego substitutes at 69¢ each. This time there was some green and a few purple, and a few grey, and some different color reds. Also for $1.00 bought 24 wooden cubes (1 1/4") with different sets of numbers, or blanks on the faces.
On Chambers St. bought Nov. [November] 1973 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. Martin's article on P which discussed PATTERSON'S WORM suggested possibilities of competitive games. For 80¢ a report on it is available.

To "Gamut of Games." Al Zygier was there talking to Phil about the art work on a war GAME, or possibly a series of them. When he left David Isby came in and they also suggested talked about war games. David said that Al< Nefi had a German game catalog for me. Phil suggested that I go get it while he spoke to David.
To S.P.I. Spoke to Jim Dunnigan and he seemed quite optimistic about the future. The games are selling well. S&T subscriptions are up to about 27,500. And they are negotiating with a number of financial institutions for large lines of credit. I brought up the general game magazine we had talked about before. He said it is still definitely something they would like to look at, but probably not before two a year or two. I mentioned that I might find it expedient to take a job in engineering unless I could see some other income in the future. He said that, if the mag. [magazine] developes [develops], my duties could be tailered [tailored] to my available time. Mainly he wants me to go over manuscripts and come up with some of the centerfold games. In any case I won't be in charge altho he didn't say this in so many words.
Spoke to Al Nofi. Someone took the German game catalog and he'll try to find it and then contact me. He said that there were some letters for me that he had placed in the catalog and these were missing too. He did give me a letter that was sent to Jim Dunnigan complaining about my REALM review, together with a carbon of a letter sent to me at "Gamut of Games." (Later picked up the letter at "Gamut.")
From shipping room took two a copy of AMERICAN REVOLUTION and 4 each of S&T #41 (which I mistakenly thought was the new issue) and MOVES #12. The latter contains a long article on RED STAR/WHITE STAR including more errata and some revisions; short pieces on GRENADIER, SOLOMON CAMPAIGN, two a variation of SNIPER! called THE TENEMENT GAME, CA; article on WORLD WAR II; short review of ESCAPE FROM COLDITZ by John Mansfield in his new column "F.O." - he also mentions me; errata for DARK AGES and GRENADIER.
To "Gamut of Games" again. David Isby was still there talking about the war GAMEs. Later Phil told me that a company "x" is involved in a new series of war games and wants to be kept secret.
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