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1 Sunday - July 1973
Third Sunday After Pentecost - 182nd Day - 183 Days to Come

Finished S&T column - CARTEL, INFINITY, TEE OFF, and THE WATERGATE SCANDAL. Mentioned the INTERNATIONAL GAME SHOW and UNITED STATES AUTO CLUB RACING GAME.

Call from Fay Barker. Her son was killed a year ago and has not been doing anything. Now she is thinking of moving to Poughkeepski [Poughkeepsie] (spelling?) to be near IBM. She figures on interesting them in TREASURE HUNT. She asked if she still had my permission to try and market it. By all means. Prior to John's death she had tried to place it and ran into a ban on travel games. (Why?)

Michael Dummett here for supper. (Called first in the morning.) He promised to send me the missing pages from the book REGELN DES MINCHIATTA-SPIELS.
Showed him the ad in G & P for the English book GAMES WITH PENCIL & PAPER. He is interested in getting a copy and will get one for me.
He said he felt guilty about not getting me repros [reproductions] of the other books in the Oxford Library but hopes to get to them sometime next fall.
He told us that Kaplan of U.S. Game Systems, had got Michael to play TAROT with him - Michael showing him the French method. After they finished Kaplan told him "This will be TAROT-TRUMP, which he published. He didn't even thank Michael, let alone pay him anything.
Kaplan signed up card manufacturers in Switzerland and France, and possibly other countries, to supply cards exclusively to U.S. Game Systems.
His trip to Sicily to find out about the game TAROCCHI was a great success. All leads worked out. The game is played with 63 cards.
Michael has been having trouble communicating with Graeme Levin about contributions to G & P. He has published an article on Arabic Cards in JOURNAL OF THE WARBURG & COURTAULD INSTITUTES and he'll send me a copy. He is also writing for THE JOURNAL OF THE PLAYING CARD SOCIETY, a strictly amateur publication. Nothing of interest to me yet.
Gave Michael copies of S&T #35, 36, 37, & 38. Told him to just let me know if he wanted others.

Call from Claude about our date later in week.

Michael looked at my father's translation of KÁRTYA KÉZIKÖNYV in connection with his playing TAROT with some Hungarians in New York. He is not sure if he had lost his copy or not. Told him to ask me if he needs another.

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