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8/6
7/31
August 1975 - Thursday 7
219th day - 146 days to come

Marilyn Nierenberg here and spent most of day. I would get $100 for preparing the crafts for photographing and I would have to pretty much write the rules of the games and tell her every- thing so that she could write it. Instead she called her boss and got permission for me to be the "free-lance" writer. I'll get $350. (I'll also get a set of the 24 volumes.)
We came up with the following games to use - subject to change if I wish:
MANCALA - using egg carton, and lima beans.
MILL - using board drawn on cardboard, and large buttons.
THE JUNGLE GAME - using board drawn on cardboard, and drawing of the animals to be copied.
QUICK TRIP - she liked the looks of the FOREIGN INTRIGUE board and I'll do an original travel game with a similar board.
ANAGRAMS - with tiles cut out of cardboard.
LASCA - with a woven board and poker chips for pieces.
GO - with cardboard board and small buttons.
She left volume II as a sample (and I later discovered that Time- Life wasn't mentioned at all) plus various other information. For a color page at start we decided on showing the following world-wide games: HANAFUDA cards (Japan), CLACK: SI GIRA! (Italy), AKTENZEICHEN XY UNGELÖST (Germany), Q-SETS (Israel), MANCALA (Africa), LES PRESIDENTS DIRECTEURS GÉNÉRAUX (France), MASTER MIND (England), ZMOTORYZOWANY TURYSTA (Poland), EENMAAL ANDERMAAL (Holland), TRI-KING (Variation of Indian game by Chinese-American); ACQUIRE (U.S.A.)
The set is called THE FAMILY CREATIVE WORKSHOP.
Call from Felicia. She spoke to Bob Johnson and is getting all my games back. She lost her temper with him and was afraid that I might object. I said that she was definitely right. Before she got mad he had said that RED LETTER was a really good game, and she said to give us some holding money. He said he couldn't; she said she wants it back; he said it wasn't so hot; and she said she'd sell it. During conversation he said that he was afraid he'd never get back in my good graces and she said a lot of her clients didn't like Hallmark. Later he said all my games were sim- ilar and she said that she defended me. She asked him about FITTING AND PROPER and THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS. He didn't know anything. She said she'd call Don Hall and he said he'd let her know by next Monday.
Burt Huber has left Hallmark to another, non-game, co. The inventor of QUICKSAND might get someone into putting money up for manufacturing it. She thinks that that backer might put money behind RED LETTER so that Moses Goldman could man- ufacture it. (???) She asked if the name CIVIL WAR had been used for a game. I checked on M.B.'s and it is called BATTLE CRY. Told her I didn't think so (but later discovered that A.H. had used the name). She asked about DAISY and I said I'd try to be ready by the
(cont. on 8/6)