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FEBRUARY 1974 - MONDAY 4
35TH DAY - 330 DAYS TO COME

Put numbers on the game boxes, downstairs and upstairs, but not in the basement.

Call from Felicia while I was out. Called back, she was not too disappointed with my 3M report. She was willing to call there about the foreign royalties that haven't been reported yet, but I suggested that we wait until Toy Fair.
She is trying to find out whether Bob Johnson will be coming in around Toy Fair time. She thinks that he is embarrassed to tell her that they won't be sending him to N.Y.
She told BB, and then me, that I should change my style and come up with some simple fun games. And Owens-Illinois is coming out with two of that type. But they don't want anything that looks like a board game. Also they want things that are "electronic".

Called Phil Orbanes and he called me back.
Phil asked if I had heard from Clyde Peters. Told him that I called
Peters on 1/28. Phil says he should have an answer from Mannie in a week or so about the 2nd issue of p & p games - if they'll go with them or not, In any case any p & p games in the future will be done in Cal. [California] rather than N.Y. [New York]
Carl may be out, but he has another offer and he won't mind going.
Mannie wants to fire some of the deadwood at D.D.I. Phil will probably be absorbed, together with "Gamut", into Reiss so that he can have a lot to do with running D.D.I.
We are not supposed to get the royalty report on the p & p games - WORDPLAY, etc. - until the end of this month but Phil will try to get it sooner.
I'll go there tomorrow morning to talk some more.

Call from Earl. He'd like to make the N.Y.G.A. meeting on 2/15 instead of 2/8. O.K. Question as to whether it should be stag or with wives. Earl bought a copy of TABLE GAMES OF GEORGIAN AND VICTORIAN DAYS which he offered me as a birthday present. Thanked him but told him that I had it.
Issy and Betty Rothman called to wish me a happy birthday and to tell me how crazy they were about ACQUIRE, which they bought recently. Betty said it was the first thinking game she had ever played.
They both want to come to the N.Y.G.A. meeting, so BB will probably go.

Thought of an idea for THE BRAIN GAME. Have set of 29 "Forced Trade" cards which are divided between the players. Can be used the same as a white double is now. Only one can be used on a turn. After the trays are exhausted it is the only play possible* - getting rid of choosing a card and throwing the dice. A double on the white dice allows for free trading by all players. *except of course for starting up a company.

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