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12/38
December 1975 - Monday 29
363rd day - 2 days to come

Call from Felicia. She wrote to the man at 3M who sent the [illegible word crossed out] letter on selling the game line (see 12/9) - R.J. May with a carbon to Keith Tuggle. She rcd. an answer - signed by A.C. Dickerson, which pretty much just repeated what the original letter said - perhaps emphasizing that the games should stay together as a whole.
In her meetings with Parker [Parker Brothers] and with M.B. [Milton Bradley] they were surprised at the news on 3M - not having rcd. letters.
She has a game (whose?) called DON'T BURST POP MY BALLOON which is liked by Bob Hubbard of "Impact." She showed it to Dick Harris, who said there was a game put out by Ideal which is similar - BANG BOX. She From Dick's explanation of BANG BOX - there is a baloon [sic] in a box and players insert swords through holes hoping not to break the baloon - she doesn't think her game is at all like it.
She called Jules Cooper and asked him about it. He seemed pleased to hear from her and [illegible word crossed out] remembered her - altho she doesn't remember meeting him. He promised to send her a catalog sheet of the game, but it didn't come. She called back and he was out of town. She asked if I had my old Ideal catalogs. No, but I might be able to find it in old Toy Fair editions of the trade magazines. Looked later and found that Ideal didn't have ads in the March editions around '69 - which she thinks is about the year. I also looked at directory editions from '61 on and couldn't find BANG BOX listed.