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11 MONDAY - FEBRUARY 1974
THOMAS ALVA EDISON BORN 1847 - 42ND DAY - 323 DAYS TO COME

To Felicia. Claude there with his model of ECLIPSE. He left and
Felicia and I to Kohner. Harold Frankel was held up and we
arranged to meet there at 11. Registered at Press Room and
my badge was prepared in advance. Ted Erickson asked to see a
copy of S&T and I said I'd bring one. Took a number of
catalogs and duplicates for Felicia.
- International Games. (One sheet) UNO card game.
- Lakeside. (News releases only.) TILT is only thing of interest.
- Whitman. Nothing new in games.
- Uncommon Games. DODECA BASEBALL, GALAZY GAZER, COMMUNITY,
ZEN BLOCKS, MOUNTAINEERING, TURNOVERS.
- Schaper. New are AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER and LETTER PILE.
MONEY CARD and OPTILE still listed.
- Selchow & Righter. GOTAMINUTE, THE OLD SHELL GAME.
- Algbe. MATOCA, WORDSHAKER, REWORD, BIG DEALER.
- M.B. [Milton Bradley]. (News releases only.) KING OIL, CROSS UP, ROLLER DERBY,
CHALLENGE YAHTZEE, HOMESTRETCH, PRIZE PROPERTY, SLAM BACK.
- Cadaco. DOUBLETAKE, TOUCH 'N GO. (MASTER MIND not listed.)
- Ideal. ELECTRONIC TABLE TENNIS, SOUBLE SHOT, SUPERSONIC HOCKEY, BLAST
and other action games. (No board games at all listed.)
- Saalfield. (News releases only.) Nothing of interest.
- Parker. (small catalog and news releases.) THE INVENTORS, PRO DRAFT,
TUGBOAT.
- T.M.A. info and talk by Randolph Barton.
- Hasbro. Looked at this but couldn't find when I got home.
- copy of TOY TRADE NEWS (2/11/74). 20th birthday of BLOCKHEAD, men-
tioning Jerry D'Arcey. Creative Playthings has REVERSI GAME. GAF
has ad for TRAVEL BUG - a view-master game. And other info that
I also found in press kits.
- Copy of TOYS & HOBBY WORLD (2/11/74). Ad for 1776 by A.H. [Avalon Hill]
Parker will be marketing Invicta Plastics' MASTERMIND.
Ad for Ohio Art mentions LEXIDATA. TRIPPPLES was taken over by
Aladdin. Article stating that LEXIDATA is a quiz game.
Intellect games will be at Int. Toy Fair showing STOCKBROKER,
CABBIE, FRENCH CHATTER, SPANISH CHATTER. BLOCK-OFF is advertised
by Eltron. Ad for RRIB-BIT by Genesis. Ad for THE SCRAMBLER
(and three sports games) by Great Games. "In memoriam" ad for
Marvin Glass.
Met Felicia at Kohner and after a short wait Harold Frankel came.
Felicia said hello and then had to go to another meeting. Harold
remembered meeting me at Ideal, where he used to work. Showed him
OVER 'N OVER, PAIR OFF, ECLIPSE, POP-SHAPE-AND SHATTER, and
TAKE-A-WORD. He gave plenty of time to each (about 2 hours
total). He was complimentary on all of them but seemed to like the
first, fourth, and fifth best. Gave me a receipt letter, promising
an answer in one week.
Had lunch and he gave me a catalog. See him any time for review games.
Catalog, among others, lists SIDETRACK, POP-CHEKS.
Harold says that HI-Q has been around for about 30 years and
sells over 200,000 a year, without advertising. They are going
(cont. on 2/10)