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2/11
2/19
FEBRUARY 1975 - THURSDAY 20
FREDERICK A. DOUGLASS DIED 1895 - 51ST DAY - 314 DAYS TO COME

Call from Jerry D'Arcey at home. He can't locate the copy of REVENOOERS and asked me to check with Ted Erickson if he left it at the Press Room. Called Ted and he definitely remembered that it was with some stuff Jerry had given to him to discard. It was. Called Jerry to tell him.

Rcd. a carbon of a letter Phil Orbanes sent to "National Paragon" showing that we should each receive $50.85 more for the combination pack of "Pad & Pencil Games" - VEGAS 13, etc.

Rcd. PLAYTHINGS (Feb.). Ad for "Gamut of Games." Nothing new.

Made a new set for playin ORGANISMS.

Graeme Levin here for supper. Then the two of us to Martin Gardner's. Martin Gardne suggested that Graeme might be able to get 30 CUBES (see '72 on) from Frank Armbruster - fro for use in G&P and/or to sell to a manufacturer. (Somewhere I heard that Frank was out of business and working for Lockheed - from Jerry probably.

Another suggestion - a series of articles by Mark Odier: on TANGRAMS, Polyominoes, McMahon squares - all of which he worked on. He also did a book on "Generalized Dominos."

Another suggestion - THE RING GAME (see 10/16/74).

Martin said that Tom Atwater was dropping agenting and will probably be a dean at a business college.

I mentioned Earl Perel's "Squaring the circle" but Martin didn't seem to re all anythi recall anything about it.

The new edition of THE SIXTH BOOK OF MATHEMATICAL PUZZLES & D DIVERSIONS FROM SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN will be out in June.

He is working on the next set to be published by Knopf under the name MATHEMATICAL CARNIVAL.

I told Martin that I will be getting AGOG back and asked if he knew anyone who'd like to do it in paperback. He'll check and get back to me in several weeks.

Looked at "Creative Publications" catalog ('74 or '75). Only things I found that are not in my '73 are STAMINA, a math game played with a spinner that points to a math sign and a digit (didn't get details); and a book, THE HISTORY OF BOARD GAMES by Robert McConville - "66 games from TIC-TAC-TOE to PULIJUDAM."

Told Martin that I had found him an interesting book on Game Theory but couldn't remember the name. I'll call him on Saturday. (GAME THEORY A NONTECHNICAL INTRODUCTION.)

Martin showed me a new copy of MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS & ESSSAYS by W.W. Rouse Ball and H.S.M. Coxeter - Twelfth Edition - University of Toronto Press. It has a lot of new material.

Stewart Coffin is publishing an occasional newsletter - PUZZLE CRAFT. Martin had extra copies of the first four issues and gave them to Graeme and me. (Filed in M.G. folder.) Martin showed us a Japanese variation of TANGRAMS, called

(cont. on 2/11)