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14 WEDNESDAY - MAY 1975
134TH DAY - 231 DAYS TO COME

Call from Felicia at 8:30. Spoke incoherently about noone wanting to see my boring game and hung up before I could get any info about the date this afternoon.

Rcd. letter from John Gollon. Mentions ARABESK, J.H. Van de Walle, SCHADA, patent #1,900,071, CAMELOT, CHIVALRY, CRESCENDO CHESS, CHESSERS, THREE PLAYER CHESS (Zubrin), INTERFACE THREE PLAYER CHESS (Mobert), ORBITAL CHESS, HEXAGONAL CHESS, NOST-ALGIA, CROWN CHESS, G&P, 4000 A.D., CHESSWORD. Gives corrections in his book CHESS VARIATIONS for the following games: TSUI SHOGI (CHUSHOGI), KOREAN CHESS, CHATURANGA, SHOGI, CAPABLANCA'S CHESS, CHANCELLOR CHESS. [ILLEGIBLE STRIKEOUT]. Mentions the Dutch games, TOGO, TRI-KING, AVIATION, TRI-TACTICS, HYERCHESS, MODERN CHESS or MINISTER CHESS; STRATEGO, THE JUNGLE GAME, CAMBODIAN CHESS, SHOGI variation; KAISSA, JETAN, S&T, CENTURIAN, PHALANX, DARK AGES, VIKING. Also CHESKERS, and CHESSERS.

To Felicia's. Noone there. To Herb Roth and he said that Felicia had been trying to contact me to say that Ron Weingartner had cancelled the date today to look at FOUR-ARMED BANDIT.

To "Gamut of Games." Phil Orbanes too busy to talk about the missing parts from the RAND games. He told me that they are lowering the price of THE SIX PACK--- to $5, a break even point. But I'll still get 5¢ royalty on each copy. The lower price should help sales. Carl Eisenberg is now a V.P. (I believe) and he'll be in charge of sales. They are getting rid of Pager.

To S.P.I. Spoke to Redmund and he'd like my next column the first week in June.

Made repros of the following which I dug out in a hurry this morning: TRI-KING, TOGO patent.

Took rules for all 4 of the BLUE & GRAY games - the missing CHICKAMAUGA as well as duplicates of SHILOH, ANTIETAM & CEMETERY HILL.

Call from Felicia in evening. Apologized "for not getting in touch with me in time to stop me from coming downtown today." Ron Weingartner called at last minute to cancel the date.

She heard from Aladdin that TAKE-A-WORD and PROFIT AND LOSS were not for their line at present. No word on TAKEOVER. Someone at Aladdin got fired for ordering 1/2 million sets of the equipment for INTERSECTION (so there is no chance of making the change to the plastic set!)

We'll be getting royalty reports as soon as computer gets straightened out, but sale have been so small that it won't be worth the postage.

Because of Sylvia Ferber's funeral called up Mark Singer and postponed our date tomorrow until Saturday.

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