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FRIDAY 6 JANUARY Fest of the Epiphany 1957 6th day - 359 days to come

At lunch walked to Polk's and looked at other sets of THE ADVERTISING GAME. Exchanged my set of "Open for solicitation" cards for another which was a little better. Exchanged one token but took one of the wrong color.

Called Jules Cooper about the OPERATION SEARCH contract. He transferred me to the legal secretary but told me that if I couldn't straighten it out to my satisfaction I should call him back. Spoke to her secretary and gave her my objections. Miss Gittleson (the legal secr.) was supposed to call back but didn't. I called her. She'll have to see Mr. Cooper about making variations from their standard form. He will be out of town at the beginning of next week so I won't hear from her till towards the end of next week.

BB & Dana played WORD CHESS while I kibutzed. It is slow moving, fragmented, and concentrates on small shorts words and variations by changing one letter. I could probably improve it with one or more of the following :- Make a board that was more square, such as 14x13 rather than the present 7x26. Allow words to be formed in any direction (so that TUB would also be BUT). Allow pcs. to pass over another pc. in a move. Color the board in a checker board pattern (possibly 10x10) and use only 1 alphabet - with possibly some extra vowels - which are set up at random in specially marked spaces. The One player can move pcs. that are in one color square, the other the other color. Give extra score, such as double, for using the difficult letters, such as Q, X, Z.