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SUNDAY 6 AUGUST Transfiguration Eleventh Sunday after Trinity 1967 218th day - 147 days to come

(cont. from 8/5) [8/5]

Martin will try to check with some editor friends about my doing a book on games. He said that the way to go about selling TRIAD to a magazine would be to prepare a one-page letter giving information about myself & what I propose to do. It is permissable to send this inquiry to as many magazines as I wish. A woman called him last week and asked him to devise a GAME on a mobeous [Mobius] strip. He gave her my number. Playb PLAYBOY magazine contacted him about doctoring a game (later found to be SCORE) to be used in the magazine. He looked at SEDUCTION and THE GAME OF SEX. He is going to write to them suggesting that they contact me. He left me a good bit of material, some for me to keep and some to reproduce & return. They consist of:

  • The Fast and Furious Game of LASKERS (Observer, June 13th 1965 - probably a British Magazine) (Filed in Board Game Folder.)
  • Several long letters by Wilfred H. Shepherd - containing among other things, BIZINGO, AGON, and a mention of FOCUS. Also mentions a Hoyle by Dawson containing a series of games GAMES published by John Jaques and Son & based on the Knights move. (Filed in Board Game Folder - this is #4 for Shepherd.)
  • NULL - a game sent by Joe Celko which was written up in the NOST publication by Dr. John S. Thayer. Martin is going to write to the latter to obtain information about its origin. (Filed in Board Game Folder.)
  • An unnamed Checker-Type GAME on a hex board by Kramer Barnhart (Filed in Board Game Folder.)
  • An unnamed pencil & paper game by Ted GAME by Ted M. Lau. (Filed in Misc. Game Folder.)
  • A number of GAME ideas by John Horton Conway (inventor of SPROUTS). (Filed in Misc. Game Folder.)
  • Times article on Games Research. (Filed in "Periodicals" Folder.)
  • Games in the Classroom - From Saturday Review. (Filed in "Periodicals" Folder) In the San Francisco Examiner of Feb. 5, 1888 (pg. 9) Martin ran acros an ad f a story on the "latest craze" - LOUISA. Which I have come across before - a PARCHISI variation.

Claude called. Told him of giving WATCH to Martin. He'll try to get Paul to gi send me another.

[arrow from this paragraph to above "Claude called..." paragraph] Martin took back some of the material he left with me a long time ago. Most of it he left. I had reproduced it all.

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English SUNDAY 6 AUGUST
Transfiguration
Eleventh Sunday after Trinity 1967 218th day - 147 days to come


(cont. from 8/5) [8/5]
Martin will try to check with some editor friends about my doing
a book on games.
He said that the way to go about selling TRIAD to a magazine
would be to prepare a one-page letter giving information
about myself & what I propose to do. It is permissable to
send this inquiry to as many magazines as I wish.
A woman called him last week and asked him to devise a
GAME on a mobeous [Mobius] strip. He gave her my number.
Playb PLAYBOY magazine contacted him about doctoring a game
(later found to be SCORE) to be used in the magazine.
He looked at SEDUCTION and THE GAME OF SEX. He is going to
write to them suggesting that they contact me.
He left me a good bit of material, some for me to keep
and some to reproduce & return. They consist of:

The Fast and Furious Game of LASKERS (Observer, June 13th 1965 - probably a British Magazine) (Filed in Board Game Folder.)
Several long letters by Wilfred H. Shepherd - containing among other things, BIZINGO, AGON, and a mention of FOCUS. Also mentions a Hoyle by Dawson containing a series of games GAMES published by John Jaques and Son & based on the Knights move. (Filed in Board Game Folder - this is #4 for Shepherd.)
NULL - a game sent by Joe Celko which was written up in the NOST publication by Dr. John S. Thayer. Martin is going to write to the latter to obtain information about its origin. (Filed in Board Game Folder.)
An unnamed Checker-Type GAME on a hex board by Kramer Barnhart (Filed in Board Game Folder.)
An unnamed pencil & paper game by Ted GAME by Ted M. Lau. (Filed in Misc. Game Folder.)
A number of GAME ideas by John Horton Conway (inventor of SPROUTS). (Filed in Misc. Game Folder.)
Times article on Games Research. (Filed in "Periodicals" Folder.)
Games in the Classroom - From Saturday Review. (Filed in "Periodicals" Folder) In the San Francisco Examiner of Feb. 5, 1888 (pg. 9) Martin ran acros an ad f a story on the "latest craze" - LOUISA. Which I have come across before - a PARCHISI variation.
Claude called. Told him of giving WATCH to Martin. He'll
try to get Paul to gi send me another.
[arrow from this paragraph to above "Claude called..." paragraph]
Martin took back some of the material he left with me
a long time ago. Most of it he left. I had reproduced
it all.