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9/28 9/20
9/27 9/19
9/26 9/18
9/25 9/17
9/24
September 1975 - Tuesday 30
273rd day - 92 days to come

Realized that I forgot to list HOLIDAY, PATTON, and MACARTHUR among the my games in letter to Steve Wilson (which BB typed yesterday). Opened it to add them and mailed it tomorrow.
Letter from Warren Buell that he'll visit tomorrow, but something came up since I wrote him.
To see Fabio. Told him that I was working on solitaire games for the new book (FUN FOR ONE) but things haven't solidified yet. However, constantly changing pencils to get different colors can be a hastle [sic]. He agreed and said to do what I think is best. He said that 31,000 copies of BEYOND TIC TAC TOE have been shipped. The initial run was 35,000 and they are printing another 15,000.
He had the letter from Elisabeth Brower to Felicia (and I asked him to have Fay make a repro for me). Nothing can be done now about her criticisms, but possibly with the next printing. I'll see what I can do about the VASARELY diagram.
He had two manuscripts that Felicia brought him. One was about a dozen of Alan Newman's p&p games with introductions to each. He said that he wasn't interested in things like FOOTBALL, BASEBALL, etc. but he was interested in the word games and PRIVATE EYE (see '74). He asked me to look at it and I saw also HIDE 'N SEEK, FINDERS KEEPERS, SLALOM!, TYCOON!, DRAG RACE, SPY VS. SPY, and probably others. He asked One was HELIX, which has players in turn writing a word along a spiral. Object is to use as many as possible of the letters at the end of his word to start yours, and the score is based on how many letters are not used. Fabio asked me what I thought of the games. I told him that I knew Alan, that I thought many of the games were very good. He asked me if I had intended using things like word games in my book and I said that I had been - but that it was a very embarrassing spot for me to be in. He said that the final decision will be his and quite possibly he'll do both - We discussed the [illegible word crossed out] advantages of a book de- voted to a single topic compared to one devoted to a "Gamut" and he seemed to prefer the former. Incidentally Alan had RIGHT ANGLES in his book, with pcs. to cut out. He also had cut out dice to be assembled. Fabio didn't like this and I suggested cards on the back cover to be cut out, 12 of them with 2 sets of [drawing of die showing 1 pip] thru [drawing of die showing 6 pips]. Fabio liked this.
The other manuscript was puzzles by George Bredehorn. Fabio didn't care for this at all.
Fabio said that he wouldn't say anything to Felicia about about talking to me, and that I shouldn't.
Fabio suggested that when I come in November with the solitaire games I should also bring some word games. Fabio gave me a copy of BEYOND TIC TAC TOE - he only had three. Fabio mentioned that Knopf, another Random House subsiduary,
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