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Saturday 18 May 1968

Armed Forces Day 139th day - 227 days to come

Finished the overlays for STATEMENT. Showed it to Helen Sternburg and Annette. They thought it good.

Played FREE FORM with different grouping of the Weir crowd. They were enthusiastic about it.

Called Jim Morgan at his hotel. Not in and he called me back.
Bill Caruson & Bob Claude not coming this trip. Will Erickson will be in Monday. Jim will call me Monday night about the two of them coming to visit me.
They didn't have time to add my rules for PENALTY BAZAAR. Possibly they will add it after the first edition of about 26,000 is finished. BAZAAR, together with THINKING MAN'S GOLF, are the most popular lunch time pursuits at their office.
They like all my suggestions for FOIL and are [crossout] testing it with them. PHLOUNDER is probably on the way out. PHLOUNDER may be included in that. Jim says that it is hard for any word game to compete against SCRABBLE.
Their first look at EXECUTIVE DECISION is encouraging. Frank Thibault's REGATTA went national at the same time as BAZAAR.
They rejected Alex Randolph's PICKWICK (too close to TANGLE). They are interested in MAD MATE.

(cont. from 5/23) [5/22]

Called Claude. Not in and spoke to Anne about the stationery show, and about 3M.

Arthur called. Told him about show & 3M. He showed his HIGH DECK manuscript to Viking. They are interested and will show it to Oswald Jacobi for his evaluation.

Short letter from Haar Hoolim.

Jim Morgan asked me how I had made out with Stancraft. (Yesterday I had told him I was going to see Rockwell, the booths were next to each other.) I told him that I was showing [crossout] them some simple peg games, thru another agent. This was just between the two of us.

I asked Alice if she'd mind if I showed AIRLINE to someone else and she said "just about everyone has seen it so go ahead." I took it back with me to show to Phil Orbanes.

I asked Jim Morgan if he could send me a copy of REGATTA to keep my collection complete. Sure.

[started 5/22]