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Created page with "14 Friday - April 1978 <br>Pan American Day - 104th day - 261 days to come ---- Rcd. [received] notice of the introduction of <u>Buetell Ollman</u>'s game <u>CLASS STRUGGLE</u>, on 4/27. Rcd. [received] letter from <u>Loren Danton</u> with the biographical matl. [material] I requested. Rcd. [received] <u>SIGNAL</u> #131. "Fantasty Games Unlimited" - released <u>ARCHWORLD</u> & <u>BROADSWORD</u> and <u>STARSHIP & SPACEMAN</u> is coming."
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 Rcd. [received] letter from <u>Loren Danton</u> with the biographical matl. [material] I requested.
 Rcd. [received] <u>SIGNAL</u> #131. "Fantasty Games Unlimited" - released <u>ARCHWORLD</u> &
-<u>BROADSWORD</u> and <u>STARSHIP & SPACEMAN</u> is coming.
+<u>BROADSWORD</u> and <u>STARSHIP & SPACEMAN</u> is coming. "Metagaming"
+upcoming are <u>NIX OLYMPIA</u>, <u>G.E.V.</u>, <u>DEATH TEST</u>; mention of <u>THE SPACE GAMER</u>.
+"Battleline & Heritage" - Upcoming are <u>INSURGENCY</u>, <u>TOMAHAWK</u>,
+<u>UNITED NATIONS</u>, <u>ARMOUR SUPREMACY</u> (British card game), <u>NAVAL WAR</u>
+(card game); <u>SOPWITH</u>, <u>STRANGE NEW WORLDS</u>, <u>QUEST</u>, <u>GRAND IMPERIALISM</u>,
+<u>STAR FIGHTER</u>, <u>SPELLMAKER</u>. "Excalibre" - <u>ATLANTIS</u> 2nd edition and
+new charts for <u>ANCIENT CONQUEST</u>. "Dimension Six Games" - have published
+<u>SECOND EMPIRE</u> and upcoming is <u>DIMENSION SIX</u>. Letter on <u>BATTLE STATIONS!</u>
+and an ad for it by "Quicksilver Productions." Short reviews of
+<u>LA BATAILLE D'AUERSTADT</u>, <s>LA BATAILLE D'AUERSTADT</s> (Martial Enterprises);
+<u>THIEVES OF BADABASKOR</u> (Role playing rules by Judges Guild); <u>URK</u> (Dunick
+Industries); <u>RED OCTOBER</u> (in "Combat 5" zine); <u>MUSTANGS & MESSERSCMITTS</u>
+(McEwan Miniatures); <u>COBRA</u>, <u>WAR OF THE RING</u>, <u>DRIVE ON STALINGRAD</u> (SPI),
+<u>GAMES</u> Mag. [magazine]
+Rcd. [received] box from Lakeside with duplicate copies of <u>OVERBOARD</u>, <u>ISOLATION</u>,
+<u>BIG DEAL</u>, and <u>SCORE FOUR</u> (a new edition). (By U.P.S.)
+<br>Rcd. [received] airmail parcel post package from Hasbro with <u>PYRAMID</u>.
+Got checks for taxes at Dollar. Called <u>Leonard Willett</u> to see if he has any
+state estimated forms. No. I'll have to pick some up.
+Visit to <u>Horn</u>s in evening. Played <u>BLOW-A-WORD</u> with new rules. Good.
+Call from <u>Felicia</u> (before we left). She spoke to <u>John McNett</u> and he promises
+an answer on <u>ABOVE AND BEYOND</u> 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.)
+<br>Felicia heard from A.H. [Avalon Hill] that three German companies have made lucrative
+offers for <u>ACQUIRE</u>. One is from "Schmidt Spiele," who, said <u>Bill Riva,</u> 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 (<u>Herb Roth</u> read her the letter on the phone). The letter also
+mentions interest in <u>BAZAAR</u> - I emphasized that P. [Parker] of Germany has rights
+for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
+<br>There was no word on <u>FOREIGN INTRIGUE</u>. Felicia will write or call to ask about
+it - also to tell <u>Tom Shaw</u> what <u>Bill Riva</u> said.
+<br>Felicia never did hear from <u>Gale Jenkins</u> of M.B. [Milton Bradley] I told her about <u>Jim Walsh</u>
+writing to <u>Bernie DeKoven</u>. Felicia said that Jim was just trying to
+make work <s>and</s> for himself and had no say, and Bernie's games are
+egghead and no good. I insisted that <u>STITCH 'N' STRATEGY</u> could
+have commercial possibilities, and that we should show it when we
+see Gale. She said O.K.