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APRIL 1974 - SATURDAY 27
117TH DAY - 248 DAYS TO COME

BB typed the letter to Graeme Levin and I mailed it at
the post office.

At the Horn's met a fellow who works for Jules Cooper at
Ideal. He told me that after they took THE BOSS from
Marvin Glass they had to work on it for six months before
it was even playable.

(cont. from 4/28) [5/21]

Call from Jerry Brown. Gave him Don Miller's address to sub-
scribe to G&P. Gave him Tom Atwater's address - although yes-
terday we discussed that W.C. Fields might not mean too much
in Europe. Jerry has another 20 GAMES [illegible strikeout] in preparation
and he will wait to show these to Tom. He will come here
in about two weeks to see my collection, and will show me the
games then. Yesterday I mentioned that eventually I want my
game collection to end up at a university. He knows some one with
authority at the "University of Minnesota" (I believe) and wanted
to talk to him at once. I suggested waiting until he saw it himself.

Call from Tom Atwater. He is at "Stationary Show" and is going to a
date with Richard Benton. Made date to meet at Press Room to-
morrow at 3. And probably he'll come here Thurs. morning.

Call from Al Richter. He is working on DON'T BLOW A FUSE again. I
told him I'd have Earl call him before leaving for Greece.
Made date to go there 6/1.

Call from Jerry D'Arcey. He couldn't make it to N.Y. for Stationary Show.
He has a backer who has put up $10,000 to produce his games.
He will do a new version of COMMODITY which uses a vacuum-formed
octagonal 3-D board with a cover. He asked me about the name
SPECULATION and I told him that it had been used. Also that there
is SPECULATE in England. He'll also put out TOP DOG and FILLERUP.

MONOLITH was turned down by Classic. Now it is being considered by
3M. (Who submitted it?) Jerry said that he heard that 3M is
going in for mass marketing - and I noticed that the sheet for
EVENTS and CONTIGO said "Suggested List Price - $10.95.
SWEEP is just about ready to go with Lakeside. Unfortunately
Jerry has had to sell most of his interest in it.
He hears from all sides that business is bad. For instance "Benko-
Goldfarb" tell him that while a company like M.B. [Milton Bradley] used to take
20 things for consideration, they now only take 6.
Jerry said that he doesn't trust M.B. [Milton Bradley] anymore. Frank Thibault
showed them a game TACTICS - which Jerry says he showed me,
but I can't find any reference to it - and then M.B. [Milton Bradley] came out
with CONNECT FOUR, which is just about the same. I told Jerry
that the game wasn't developed "in house," as he thought but
(cont. on 4/26)

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