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OCTOBER 1974 - MONDAY 14 COLUMBUS DAY CELEBRATION - 287TH DAY - 78 DAYS TO COME
Call from Bob Gellman and more discussion on WEEKEND IN VEGAS. He is changing the spinner in the "Jackpot" so that there are as many individual losing spaces as there payoffs on the winning spaces. I also suggested giving a player two numbers in "Roulette" by placing the betting chip on a line (since changing the board is an expensive proposition). He asked if I would go over the rules completely. Didn't offer any money but said he would appreciate it. I suggested that I'd like extra copies of games from time to time. He said I could have that in any case. Promised to have WEEKEND IN VEGAS and also the WASHINGTON blurbs to him by the end of next week.
Watched Ralph Anspach on Ch. 5's "Midday." They played a tiny bit of ANTI-MONOPOLY and made it seem quite dull.
BB and I to Kennedy to pick up Pierre Berloquin and Annie. Drove them to Waldorf-Astoria. Annie stayed there and we took Pierre to a restaurant in Chinatown.
Pierre gave me issues #1 & 2 of a French war magazine - DE BELLO. It is supposed to be on military history and war games, but in looking thru it couldn't find anything on war games - at least not board war games.
Claude called to ask about my meeting with Pierre. He'd like to meet Pierre and I said I'd try to arrange it.
In my talk with Bob Gellman he said that he was licensing PATTON and MACARTHUR to "House of Games" in Canada, and that I would be getting 5% of 5%. I t told him that the usual procedure is to split royalties from foreign licensing 50-50. He said that he had had a lot of expenses setting up the deal. I said that perhaps we could work something out for him to take something off the top for his expenses, but to check with Felicia. He said that if this is the usual procedure he would follow it. Incidentally, he said that if sales are good in Canada, Waddingtons will probably take the games in 1976.
(cont. from 10/23) [10/30]
Call from Felicia in the evening. After I left she rcd. 2 "pristine" copies of FOCUS from Western Publishing. She had to wait 1 1/2 hours to mail the 3 she sent and doesn't want to do it again. (It is because of U.P.S. strike.) I'll take them when I go downtown next Tuesday. If she won't be at her office she'll bring them to Bob Gellman's office before. [Started 10/30]