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Thursday 16 January 1969

16th day - 349 days to come

Made about 12 repros of the Form Letter to send to companies.

Bought 4 magic slates. Bought a trivial Whitman game WHO IS THE THIEF?

Stan, Harris & Irv. Lubow of Renwal over in evening with 10 games for me to evaluate. They are mainly chil- dren's games. They are tired of waiting for Jim & Phil to get the adult line ready and want to start with a simpler line in the meantime. Irv gave me quite a grilling over what I thought I could offer them; particularly about whether a game would be a success or not. If anyone could do that then only Monopolies would be put out. Irv said he is trying to get Jim to make a simpler version of RED BARON rather than getting everything completely authentic.

As for the book, the only game that is definitely [crossouts] on sale is BATTLE OF BRITAIN.
After they left I looked briefly at the games. Didn't seem like much of value.
Showed them TOTALLY-- and AIRLINE briefly. Might be in- terested in the latter when they [crossout] get to the adult games.

Claude called while they were here. He picked up the March & May Scientic [Scientific?] Americans for me. He saw Parker's TYCOON for $2. I have a copy, prior to Parker taking it over.

(cont. from 1/17) [1/17] DOMINOS used for making a magic squares.
BB felt, and I agreed, that he was primarily interested in assurance that his 3 games were great, not in my games. After Bryce left, but before I met him, Felicia called to say that she was sure I could show him anything without worrying.

Rcd. a letter from Haar Hoolim with a repro [crossout] of a letter from ALPCO. His game is doing well in educational circles, but not in department stores.

I also showed TOTALLY-- to Bryce. Not much comment.