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THURSDAY 6 FEBRUARY 1969 37th day - 328 days to come

Read SECURITY and background material on the MONE THE MONEY GAME on subway.

Drew up a diagram on tracing paper and pasted it on a sheet of heavier paper. Used a ruling pen on the entire thing and it took a long time. I men- tioned that some of the rough sketches looked better and BB said she definitely thought so. Decided that I would ask Fabio what he thought about my drawing the straight lines (such as a board) in pencil then going over everything in ink without using a straightedge. This would, of course, save me a lot of time.

Called Jim Dunnagan [Dunnigan]. Told him that I found that Parker Bros. had registered the name FORTUNE (see 2/4) as a children's game. Jim will transmit to Phil. He picked up the game SECURITY when he lectured last year at a midwest college. The inventor was connected with the college. Discussed ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR I with Jim. He said I can make any changes I would like. Also I should suggest that the readers experiment with changes of their own, as he does with the classroom users. Avalon-Hill will be distributing STRATEGY & TACTICS so he thinks the circulation will go from about 1,500 to the neigh- borhood of 5,000, which will give Chris and him a good income. And also allow them to pay a little more for articles. He & Chris will get together with me sometime in April to discuss my column. Avalon-Hill has signed a contract with Chris' company - Operation Project Analysis Corp. (PAC) to do the next three war games (1970, 1, 2), Jim will do them indirectly since he has an exclusive contract with Renwal. This year A-H is putting out ANZIO tho Jim doesn't think it is too good a job (even tho he recommended the man who did it). He thinks the art work is very bad. In the games he does he controls the art work, and is repaid for expenses. There is a new man in charge of marketing at A-H and Jim thinks I'll get more info from him than I would of from Tom Shaw. Rcd. a letter from Haar Hoolim. He is happy with my introduction to him in the book.