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5/6
MAY 1974 - TUESDAY 7
127TH DAY - 238 DAYS TO COME

Rcd. [received] the Hoi Polloi questionnaire back from the accountant with a space - that they penciled in - for me to sign. Did and mailed it in.
Rcd. [received] a letter from Graeme Levin with an apology and the corrected check. Mentioned EXECUTIVE DECISION, PATTON and HOLIDAY (which he hasn't rcd. [received]), SLEUTH, and the other points I raised in my letter to him.
Rcd. [received] a letter from Janusz Weychart, who was Lech Pijanowski's best friend. Lech's son is continuing Lech's work and would like to continue our exchanges of material. Asked for PLOY, VENTURE, SLEUTH, and EXECUTIVE DECISION. Lech's son doesn't write English very well, which is why Weychert wrote.

{Janusz Weychert
{Skr. poczt. 338
{90-950 Lodz
{Poland

{Wojciech Pijanowski
{Warszawa 36
{Stepinska 3
{Poland


For some reason thought of the letter I rcd. [received] together with the book MATH, WRITING, E GAMES (actually I was looking at the pile of letters that I had to answer) and I couldn't locate it. Decided to call "New York Review" and I was put threw to Whitney Ellsworth (actually he called me back). I told him about losing the letter. He said that Herbert Kohl had wanted the book sent to me and they hoped that I'd review it. Told him that I had been sick and hadn't read it yet, but that I would either review it or mention it in my column. (Ellsworth is either the publisher or an editor - can't remember which.)

Call from Felicia. the head of American Publishing visited her (not Nancy Rosen) and looked at a few things. He liked LIFE SAVER and COUGH DROP, but they would be difficult for him to produce. He told Felicia that actually he is not interested in anything from the outside. He likes to produce his own things. He was very pleasant.
She went to the "Premium Show." There was a new division of 3M there - Gifts for "Gifts for Business" run by a Mr. Miller who had been at Brown & Bigelow (spelling?) for 20 years. Among other things they had SLEUTH, EXECUTIVE DECISION, and a full line of sports games. She didn't see the p&p games.
She saw Mary Hilt and said hello.
Business was jumping at the show.
She has a new client, Mike Riley who did ARCHIEBALL and CANNONBALL for Skor-Mor, and has taken them back. Before coming to her, he just placed a game with Ideal.
She saw the V.P. of Aladdin (where?) and liked him. Mr. Kelso will be coming to N.Y. to look at things next week of during Stationary Show. Will probably call in a day or two to set the date.

Wrote to Robert E. Horn. Mentioned AGOG and sent my S&T column with review of GUIDE TO SIMULATIONS/GAMES FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING. Discussed possibility of working with them.
Wrote to Phil Cohen. Mentioned AGOG. Listed the games in
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