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August 1977 - Friday 19
231st day - 134 days to come

To "Old Bethpage Restoration." In "General Store" store saw two games & the one in charge let me look at them. HOCUS POCUS - no rules, but all it was was pictures of different heads sliced into three pcs. [pieces], to be put together in different ways. GAME OF THE CITY TRAVELER - each player, except the "reader," is a different "profession" and has a number of cards each giving an object connected with the profession. The reader reads a story and when he comes to a blank he points to one of the players who must immediately read off one of his cards, or suffer a penalty. (Rough idea.)
In gift shop saw NINETEENTH CENTURY GAMES & SPORTING GOODS - which is an 1886 catalog of "Peck & Snyder" (Pyne Press-Princeton 1971). Aside from cards and other standards, there were only two pages of games. The most interesting was THE MONOPOLIST, which was on a board with two other games. They describe it as a struggle between capitol and labor, to become the new monopolist. The board seems to be a single path in a circle.

Call from Pat Leonard. They can get Jack Ford and an associate William Randolph Hearst, 3rd, for the Pablo Guzman show at 4 Sunday, so they want me at 3. Told her that I wasn't thrilled with having to call people to change the time - but I understood that she didn't have a choice.
Called to tell Claude. Not in and spoke to Raymond - who heard me last week. Called and told Annette Laurence. They also heard me last week.
(All said that I sounded O.K.)

(cont. from 8/20) [8/20]

I looked at SPHINX which Ronnie also bought at Games Gallery. I asked Ronnie to get me repros [reproductions] of the rules.