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MONDAY NOVEMBER 1968 309th day - 57 days to come Wrote up CURSO Heerence cerere clande called. He spoke to an editor at McGraw-Hill on the phone, ag The editor wants him to send in a summany of a game hookSeems quite intenested. Read me the introduction to his book and it sounds good. Asked him about LINES OF ACTION. He said it would be ok, for me to use it but he would like to use PATTERNS II, I told him that my book is fundamentally based on the fact that the games... Lannot be found elsewhere. Said I'd discuss it with my editor. Later discussed it with BB and decided to skip LINES OF ACTION and uze another of his that he doesn't want to use and have him use one of ... mine that I don't intend to use... When clande called McGraw-Hill he asked to talk to the one who edited THE COMPLEAT STRATEGYST. and was connected with him Wrote up Bob Claude's to examples for 2 handed SPELLBINDER to answer questions, also a covering letter, Finished writing up UPS Jim Dunnigan called and had me speak to Chris Wagner, He says there is a lange pile of games at Renwal Game science that have to be evaluated and that there is noone there who can do it. Asked what I'd want as a consultant Said at $100 an hour which he said was fine Asked whether it would be better for me to go there on to have the games brought to me. With the latter I'd have all my files available Tim and Chris will visit me shortly AT Recev al (Lont, from 11/3) [11/21 In cleveland Phil saw that 3M was test marketing FEUDALE & Folle also a CHESSo set in bookshelf format. He did. not see the card games but will look again for me. BB mailed ANOTHER" to Jenny D'Ancey. Phil also said that A-H was not using Jim's game of WALL STREET because
they don't want to pay royalties. [Started 11/21] .