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Sunday 24 August 1969

St. Bartholomew, Apostle 236th day - 129 days to come
Twelfth Sunday after Trinity

Played TEMPO on the 6x5 board with BB (see 8/22). Worked very well.

Sent a letter to Charles Wells enclosing $1.00 to con- tinue of the revision mailing list for PARLEMENT. Also a personal letter telling him that his game is reviewed in A GAMUT OF GAMES.

Sent a letter to NOST asking if I could join, primarily to receive their publications.

Started working on a new set of cards for the proprietary version of TRIAD.

(cont. from 8/26) [8/26]

call me then or Friday.

Rcd. a letter from Dr. Berg (see 8/13). He'll be in the Bronx some Thursday in Sept. or Oct. and will call me in advance.

Rcd. a very pleasant letter from Mel Taft in answer to my letter to him.

Tony D'Ambra called. He sold POLKA-DICE (see 1968) to Cadaco. They offered him either $10,000 or a contract with 2 1/2% for first 20,000, 5% for next 50,000, and 7 1/2% thereafter. Asked my opinion and I said the royalty contract was a very good one. When he gets the contract he will bring it to me to look at.
In decided [deciding] who to show his games to he decided on Cadaco because they have TRIPOLEY and MICHIGAN RUMMY and he thought they might be partial to gambling games. He originally spoke to Dan Monihan who sent the game to Chicago. He then was told to call Chicago collect and spoke to Douglas Bolton.
When Bolton said that he had to check out the name and if the game had been done before. Tony said he had a friend who could tell them all that. Bolton asked if it was Sid Sackson. He also asked if I had helped with figuring the odds. Tony said that I had given him some suggestions. They are going to change a few of the odds.
Tony thanked me for my help.

Sent a $5 check for a year's [crossout] membership in the International Federation of Wargaming, so as to get their publications,