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Title
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1971_Sackson_325_November 01.jpg
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Creator
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Sid Sackson
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Date
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1971
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Type
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image
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Format
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.jpg
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Source
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Box 1, Object 9, Sid Sackson collection
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Language
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English
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Coverage
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1971
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Rights
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The Strong, Rochester, New York.
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transcription
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English
10/31
10/30
10/28
MONDAY 1 NOVEMBER 1971
All Saints' Day
305th day - 60 days to come
To Brentano's. Was given a table near the door to demonstrate
ACQUIRE, BAZAAR, EXECUTIVE DECISION, MONAD, & SLEUTH.
I asked Dorothy Shapiro about VENTURE and she said that
it did so poorly that they discontinued it. She said, however,
that SLEUTH was doing very well. Also MONAD, altho it is
not doing great, does have a [illegible crossed out] sready stream of requests.
Henry Levy mentioned that Parker has supplied old games for
the window and one of them was an earlu WALL STREET.
I looked at it in the window and then in the evening checked
in the Parker archives material. It was a Parker game [copyright] 1901.
Bob Gellman of Research Games came over to see me. He
said that he heard that I was the greatest. He asked
if I was exclusive with 3M. When I told him that I wasn't
he said he'd like to get together. Gave him my card and
he is at 200 5th Ave., room 962. But he isn't always there.
He said he likes games that are tied to something definite,
such as travel. Thought that GO SEE might be good, tho
I didn't mention it to him.
At end of session he said he sold 14 copies of
MOVIE MOGULS.
I didn't sell anything. In fact the only ones who spoke
to me were Bob Gellman and David Rice, a fan of my games.
He wrote to me with a solution to the SLEUTH problem and
also mentioned EXECUTIVE DECISION. I thought that he had was
the one who said that EXECUTIVE DECISION was like
MANAGEMENT II. He wasn't; actually he said that he liked
my game much better.
He is a great fan of AGOG and prepared a package with cards,
two sets of dominos, graph paper, etc which he keeps together
with a copy of the book. He particularly likes DOMINO BEAD GAME,
PROPERTY, LOA, and HAGGLE, which he has played a few times.
He hasn't gotten to FOCUS yet. A friend of his is nuts about POKE.
He has all my 3M games. Told him about my suggestions
for a more skillful version of BAZAAR. He thought it might
be a good idea to playuntil 4 cards have been taken and
then start another round by turning another 4 cards.
David said that in general my games are the only ones
[illegible crossed out] which don't need doctoring of the rules before he can play
them.
Gave him my card & told him to call me to arrange for him to
visit me. This was after he mentioned a lot of old games,
all of which I have in my collection.
In a conversation with Henry Levy he mentioned that he'd
like to see a copy ofS & T, with an idea of subscribing.
Told him I'd bring him one.
To Harvey & Carlson. Mickey Mackay in a conference.
Her secretary gave me copies of SUMMIT, PSYCH-OUT,
WORD WISE, and GROUP. (They all list for $8.)
(cont. on 10/31)
