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15 Friday - March 1977
Annunciation of the Lord - 84th day - 281 days to come

Prepared 3 sheets with card layouts for the three colors in PROFIT & LOSS, including the "condition" cards. Sent this with repros of the rules, also th Made a copy of the SEARCH diagram to use for the cover and mailed it to Jane Feder.

At Dr. Schwartz, preparatory to plane flight to Chicago, "he was very insistent that my book be called BEYOND COMPETITION, and he hated BEYOND RIVALRY. He also insisted on calling {Vincent K. Murtha [telephone number] who is a specialist on office & business management. He is also sold on the original name. He wants to meet me, altho I tried to tell him that the games were not that profound. But he insisted and we arranged for him to come over 9:30 tonight. Later he cancelled and we set it for next Thurs. [Thursday] at 2 in the afternoon. He wanted to see me before I went to Chicago but I said that I just couldn't manage it.

Call from Phil Orbanes. Altho they like THE RIGHT WORD they decided that 1978 is too soon for Ideal to do a word game. Maybe the year after. They are also not going to do WIRETAP - too many imitations of MASTERMIND coming out. He'll come here on 3/30 to return them to me, 10 A.M.

Rcd. [received] letter from John Gollon. Mention of GALAXY OF GAMES, POLYGON, J.H. Van de Walle, VOORWORD (?), MIKADO, ARABESK, STRATEGO, Prof. Joseph Boyer, Phil Cohen, OMNIBUS OF CHILDREN'S GAMES, WHO CROSSES THE RIVER FIRST?, CHINESE CHESS, GALA (with additional material from R.C. Bell), Don Miller, THE GAMESMAN, FAIRY CHESS, INTERFACE, THREE-PLAYER CHESS, SHOGI, YALTA-ECGECS A TROIS, STRATOMIC-ECHECS DISSUASION, ECHECS DES TROIS ROYAUMES, GLOBAL CHESS & CHECKERS, ORBITAL CHESS, SIEGE (Kelly), HELIOS, CHUSHOGI. Enclosed description of GAME appearing in "Dark Crusade." Also rules for WHO CROSSES THE RIVER FIRST? and an addendum.
Rcd. [received] WELCOME BACK KOTTER CARD GAME.

Trimmed the repros [reproductions] of the game rules I made for Pierre Berloquin.

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