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25 WEDNESDAY - OCTOBER 1972
299TH DAY - 87 DAYS TO COME

Rcd. a letter from Don Turnbull. He has an AHIKS
meeting in Bath - 500 miles from Cambridge - on Friday and Saturday
of the week we will be in London.
Asked me to ask Martin Gardner a question on Lewis Carroll.
The New Guinea carving that Don Laycock sent me arrived.

Finished writing up POLY-Y for S & T. Then did BLOCK 'N SCORE,
NEO-CHESS, and CHESSWORD.

Dana rcd. a second "EDMUND" catalog which he let me have. Nothing new
in games. But I did tear out some pages and filed them in
'72 Misc.

(cont. from 10/26) [10/27]

CHINESE CHECK and CROSSFIRE.
Took two copies of MYWORD!.

Met Claude and Wald at Tad's. Then to Simulations. Introduced
Wald to Jim Dunnigan for a moment. Spent most of the time
talking in Red's office. I was sleepy. Red gave Wald a copy
of NAPOLEON AT WATERLOO which he and Claude were going to play. Then Wald decided not to, but kept the game. Claude and Wald
to "Charlie's Game House" - formerly "House of Games" - to play GO.
I went home.
Claude gave Wald and me each a large plastic map of the world.

[Started 10/27]

(cont. from 10/30) [10/30]