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Wednesday 20 August 1969

232nd day - 133 days to come

Called Jan at Pierce Promotions. She just rcd. a new supply of games and will get them out to Martin. I arranged to pick up MONAD and VENTURE tomorrow morning on my way to Random House.
Jan told me that there is an article on games in the September MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED. She hasn't been able to get a copy yet.

Called Barbara and then she called me back. I'll go to Bill Cummings tomorrow morning to check the blueprints.

Called Bob Claude in St. Paul. Told him that [crossout] the games for Martin Gardner were here. He'll send me a couple of my card games next week. All the games are selling well and production delays on the card line kept them from being shipped in time to be included in the second quarter.
Some copies of VENTURE were sent to G.I.'s (in Viet Nam, I think) and they were quite popular, replacing POKER.
Will Erickson has moved completely out of games and Bill Caruson is taking over as overall head of the game pro- gram. Keith Tuggle will head the Bookshelf and sports lines while Jim Krauses, who I haven't met yet, will handle the Card & Educational lines.

(cont. from 8/21)[8/21]

Felicia told me that Jake Williams had a nervous break- down and was in a hospital down south for a few months. He is now better and has been offered the job of development head at Ideal. He is debating whether to accept it, since Ideal is a hectic place in which to work.

The new rules for POWER arrived. Filed them in "Misc. Games" folder.

At the gift show Felicia saw some games. She had a sheet for a game TRIAL & BALANCE which shows a see-saw with compartments on it and weights to place on it. (put out by Klingler Co.).
Felicia showed me the letter from Randy Barton [Bartin?] (see 8/12), and her answer. It was polite, but said that Mr. Simmons had said that THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS could be the suc- cessor to INSTANT INSANITY. She also said that we hope some- day that Parker will publish one of my games, but in the meantime most of the other companies are.