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14 Friday - April 1978
Pan American Day - 104th day - 261 days to come

Rcd. [received] notice of the introduction of Buetell Ollman's game CLASS STRUGGLE, on 4/27. Rcd. [received] letter from Loren Danton with the biographical matl. [material] I requested. Rcd. [received] SIGNAL #131. "Fantasty Games Unlimited" - released ARCHWORLD & BROADSWORD and STARSHIP & SPACEMAN is coming. "Metagaming" upcoming are NIX OLYMPIA, G.E.V., DEATH TEST; mention of THE SPACE GAMER. "Battleline & Heritage" - Upcoming are INSURGENCY, TOMAHAWK, UNITED NATIONS, ARMOUR SUPREMACY (British card game), NAVAL WAR (card game); SOPWITH, STRANGE NEW WORLDS, QUEST, GRAND IMPERIALISM, STAR FIGHTER, SPELLMAKER. "Excalibre" - ATLANTIS 2nd edition and new charts for ANCIENT CONQUEST. "Dimension Six Games" - have published SECOND EMPIRE and upcoming is DIMENSION SIX. Letter on BATTLE STATIONS! and an ad for it by "Quicksilver Productions." Short reviews of LA BATAILLE D'AUERSTADT, LA BATAILLE D'AUERSTADT (Martial Enterprises); THIEVES OF BADABASKOR (Role playing rules by Judges Guild); URK (Dunick Industries); RED OCTOBER (in "Combat 5" zine); MUSTANGS & MESSERSCMITTS (McEwan Miniatures); COBRA, WAR OF THE RING, DRIVE ON STALINGRAD (SPI), GAMES Mag. [magazine]

Rcd. [received] box from Lakeside with duplicate copies of OVERBOARD, ISOLATION, BIG DEAL, and SCORE FOUR (a new edition). (By U.P.S.)
Rcd. [received] airmail parcel post package from Hasbro with PYRAMID.

Got checks for taxes at Dollar. Called Leonard Willett to see if he has any state estimated forms. No. I'll have to pick some up.

Visit to Horns in evening. Played BLOW-A-WORD with new rules. Good.

Call from Felicia (before we left). She spoke to John McNett and he promises an answer on ABOVE AND BEYOND on Monday. Right now it looks very encouraging. I'll take my other set with me to Mass. [Massachusetts] and will call Felicia in the evening to check. (Felicia said to call collect, but I said that wouldn't be necessary.)
Felicia heard from A.H. [Avalon Hill] that three German companies have made lucrative offers for ACQUIRE. One is from "Schmidt Spiele," who, said Bill Riva, would get the game on the market sooner; another is "Ravensburger" who would be slower but would sell more; and Felicia can't remember the third (Herb Roth read her the letter on the phone). The letter also mentions interest in BAZAAR - I emphasized that P. [Parker] of Germany has rights for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
There was no word on FOREIGN INTRIGUE. Felicia will write or call to ask about it - also to tell Tom Shaw what Bill Riva said.
Felicia never did hear from Gale Jenkins of M.B. [Milton Bradley] I told her about Jim Walsh writing to Bernie DeKoven. Felicia said that Jim was just trying to make work and for himself and had no say, and Bernie's games are egghead and no good. I insisted that STITCH 'N' STRATEGY could have commercial possibilities, and that we should show it when we see Gale. She said O.K.

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