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8/17
18 Monday - August 1975
230th day - 135 days to come

Rcd. a letter from Phil with the clipping on THE SAVINGS GAME from BANKING Magazine. Sent a letter asking for a copy. Rcd. the original of the SPIEL-BRETT that Walter Luc Haas sent me repros of. rcd. 7/26
Call from Felicia. She loved the article on CHECKERS VARIATIONS I did for DAISY. She said that maybe I was wasting my talents not writing material for juveniles. Told her that BEYOND TIC TAC TOE was juvenile and that I was working on a follow up. Also told her that I was working on the craft encyclopedia. She was contacted by a Whitney Hastings who previously was a client of Tom Atwater's. Parker recommended her. He has about 20 skill action games, some with patents. He's paying her way to come to see his games next week (somewhere in New England). He could not get Atwater to tell him who has seen his games. I told her that Parker certainly has, and Tom had connections with 3M. She said that Hastings got $1,000 for the name ON GUARD from Parker. They used it on a completely different game than the one he submitted.
Called Mary Marilyn Nierenberg. Talked about the project in gener- al. Probably we'll use QUICK TRIP as the full page opening picture. I'll do models of boards for THE JUNGLE GAME and MILL. She'll do the pcs. for THE JUNGLE GAME, full size so they can be traced. Gave her the animals to use. On QUICK TRIP we decided to use each citie's [sic] name in its own language. She'll check them out and call me with them. We postponed the date for doing the photographs until 9/3. Probably towards the end of the next week she will come here to look at what I have to photograph. If any line drawings are necessary she will do them; all I have to do is make sketches.
Made a board for MILL using wood grain contact and 1/8" plastic strips and 3/8" circles at the intersections.
Laurie Horn brought me a repro from the SCRABBLE PLAYER'S NEWSPAPER, which was the one I rcd. from S&R on 8/14. (Discarded.)
Called Claude to see how he was feeling. He and Anne both some- what under the weather.
During day called Bob Reiss and changed date this Thurs. to 1:30. I'm to talk to Manny Lefkowitz about SPECTACULARS too.
In morning changed a few of the spots on QUICK TRIP to equalize the colors in the center of the 5-spot paths as much as possible (red has one more). Also thought of the rule that if players pick two cards to use for the game they can not pick one that gives their color a move of 3.
(cont. on 8/17)

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