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TUESDAY 25 NOVEMBER 1969
329th day - 36 days to come

On subway reading A SHORT HISTORY OF CHESS.

Jim Dunnigan and Edi Birsan over for supper.
Brought rules and boards, but not the playeing pieces for:
LEIPZIG
NORMANDY
ITALY
TANNENBERG
DEPLOYMENT
BARBAROSSA
Brought three copies of the Nov. - Dec. S & T.
Brought [illegible crossed out] reproductions of both of my columns.
Edi mentioned that he rcd. a request for a brochure on "S & T"
from a reader of "Scientific American" who saw Martin's
article and knows I write for S & T.
Jim mentioned an article in Wall St. Journal
WALL ST. JOURNAL on war games. He thought he had a copy
of it at his office and I drove him down before midnight.
Couldn't find it but will call tomorrow morning & read it to
me. He gave me a copy of the review on
ADVANCED WAR GAMES and AGOG which will appear in next
issue of S & T. Also a reprint from THE GENERAL with
an article by him entitled "The Avalon Hill Philosophy - Part 16".
Jim suggested that I ask Tom Shaw for a lifetime
subscription to "The General".
Wants 1500 words on LENSMAN for my next column.
(cont. on 11/23)

At Random House, when I asked for Diane, giving my name,
the reception gave me a letter from:
{Joseph A Weisbecker
{1220 Wayne Ave.
{Erlton, Cherry Hill, N.J. 08034
Who is the inventor of DECISIONS - DECISIONS, THINK - A - DOT
PSYCHEDELIC - 9 (which he offered me), and a <GAME that
Parker licensed. He sat