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Called <u>Felicia</u>. Told her about <u>THE PACKER'S SECRET</u> and <u>TWELVE CIRCLES</u>.
She thanked me.
She rcd. a <u>GAME</u> model from <u>Connor Barrett</u> and he put a high
value on it and she had to play $15 duty.
She is going to have a meeting with Mr. Dobbs of the Chicago
firm that put out <u>THE GREAT DOWNHILL SKI GAME</u>. They are
interested primarily in more action games like <u>TENNIS ANYONE?</u>
She is going to show him a game <u>CHECKPOINT CHARLIE</u> by a
new client she says is very prolific and good. (I said it must
be a cold war game but she said it wasn't.)
She was very depressed and said that business was lousy all over.
And if things continued this way 3M might go out of games.
Later I told her how much this worried me and she said things
would have to stay bad another 2 years before any such thing
would happen.
I told her about <u>EXECUTIVE DECISION</u> in "Frederick Atkins" catalog.
Also about <u>Dick Littlefield</u>'s wanting to get me into a personal ap-
pearance at Brentano's. She said forget it. Nobody can get along
with the gal in charge of advertising who'd have to approve it.
Discussed my writing to Jim Kraus on BAZAAR. She wants a carbon.
She is going to tell <u>Al Richter</u> that he'd better handle his games
himself. They are just to big and expensive for the play value.
Urban Systems is in trouble; not getting reorders.
Told her about <u>INCAZEC</u> which I saw at <u>Marge Naramore</u>'s.
Date next Thurs. at 10:30 to see <u>POWUR</u> and <u>AFRICAN CHESS</u>.
<u>Irv Brambier</u> is going to be in Canada and he will call <u>Alfons
Rubbens</u> to ask about <u>FREE FORM</u>, <u>TRY-ANGLES</u>, and the others
things he took. He didn't answer Felicia's letters.
Felicia told me that <u>Jim Goldsbury</u> said not to tell the inventors
anything. When she plugged <u>RED LETTER</u> she got no reaction. The
only things she knows for sure to be in the first batch are: <u>DUEL</u>,
<u>FITTING & PROPER</u>, and <u>MAKE-A-PUZZLE GAME</u>. There was some more
talk of my going to Kansas City as a solid citizen game inventor.
Felicia chided Jim about their wanting original things and
then wanting something like <u>BRIDGE</u> and X-Word Puzzles, which
they are very hot on. I told her about M.B.'s <u>GROUP</u>. Told her
I'd try to come up with something on each of these.
Felicia mentioned to me that Hallmark is crazy about <u>DUEL</u>
because it is "like" something else.
Felicia mentioned giving <u>RIDERS UP</u> to <u>Claude</u>, saying she had
offered it to me. I told her that I didn't think so, but that
I was glad she had given it to Claude; he'd get more opportunity
to make use of it.
Called <u>Arthur</u>. I'll meet <u>Wald</u> and him at 10:00 Thursday at
200 Fifth Ave.
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(cont. from 5/31) [6/3]
allow switching of any two bases (plus towers) in a line as long
as the colors match in the new positions. This is one move.
[started 6/3]