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7/31 THURSDAY 8 AUGUST 1968 221st day - 145 days to come

Mike Abrams called from Philadelphia before I had a chance to reach Alice so
I couldn't tell him exactly what the status of SUCCESSION was, Helll call tomorrow (since he is calling from a city office). Se Sumated that Talked about his programming games and I remembered HEXAPAWNo which I saw at Expo 167, Told him I'd send him the rules. Contacted Felicia and Alice called me after.. Jerry D'Arcey called. He is leaving this afternoon for Minneapolis to show JIGSEE to 3M and STINGER" To Schaper, w as Yesterday he saw Mel Taft at M, B, with the following resultsiSCORE.- Sold it. Since it is competetive with STRATEGY POKER they are only giving him 12%, STINGER. - Not interested, SEANCE - Not interested, CODE Interested and kept a copy HANG UP As soon as they saw it at they showed him some thing that looked very similar and refused to look at his. Alice called. Asked her about SUCCESSION. She has had it at 3M , & Champion and S&R is not interested in strategy games Shed Just as soon have Mike take it back, . She red a letter from Bob Claude FACTOR is rejected. They are testing THESE UNITED STATES & FLINGERS Wond sooni She got the material from the Columbia professor on CONFRONTATION Nothing much of interest I'll go to their office Monday to sign the INFINITE PLANE contract... Called Tom Atwater during the day, after kicking myself for not going to see him yesterday when I was in concord. Nothing new on TEMPO, ODD OR EVEN, INTERPLAY: Says he.. way go to see Rockwell but I doubt it Another book com pany may be interested in going into games. He and Hank Simmons were in Europe with their wives on pleasure and bussiness. They saw Piet Hein Tom is thinking of putting an ad in the Arade magazines saying that SOMA is covered by patents I mentioned panker's success with BOOBY-TRAP. I promised to send him the addresses of the magazines. He said he'd try to visit me in about 2 weeks... Looked at games in klein's. Nothing, Dale it picked up taimed the August issue of PSYCHOLOGY TODAY. THE CITIES GAME which Tooted quite interesting.

Discussed agent's fees with BB in connection with Hank Simmons remark "What do you need them for? He also mentioned that he had szen a mutual acquaintance... (cont. on 7/31)