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MONDAY 26 MAY Monday in Whitsun Week 1969 146th day - 219 days to come

Bought cardboard in Cross County. Got a 10% professional discount when the salesman assumed I made a living from inventing games. Called Barbara about the Trade Marks. She checked with the RCA lawyer, He said it was definitely not required. I looked through a number of articles from periodicals. They never used them. The proofs will be ready by Wednesday and she'll send them to my office by messenger. I brought up the matter of getting a set to Martin Gardner, for his column and for submittion to the Science Book of the Month Club. Decided to get him zeroxes after the pages are dummied.

Rest of day and evening working on rules of SNAFU and almost got them finished.

John Geiger called. Invited us to visit him. Told him to- wards the end of June. He is going ahead with various games in his line and they are selling moderately well according to Gary & Reidel. He will send me copies of the various things as they come out, or possibly the rules and enough equipment to play all of them. Or possibly I'll pick them up when we visit there. [His phone [phone number here].]

Ordered COMPUTER GAMES (see 5/25).

(cont. from 5/27) [5/27]

He wants to get a release from Phil Orbanes to do two games for A.H. - LUFTWAFFE and ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR 2. However Tom Shaw hasn't completely decided about the games. Jim will give him another two week to come across with a contract, or forget the whole thing. Jim will also try to get the new A.H. games for me and to find out if Tom Shaw will want to look at my games in July. Chris is giving up STRATEGY & TACTICS. Two men from Chicago may be taking it over. Jim knows them slightly. He will try to meet with them in the next few weeks and find out what they have in mind. Jim said he would tell them that they couldn't use his material unless they use my column. I told him not to force them in that way. Jim wants to take my copy of CONFRONTATION to work on the military verison. He'll pick it up Thursday. Jim gave me Chris Wagner's phone number. [phone number here]. He is only home on the weekends. Jim has some information about a symposium on learning uses of gaming in a college. Will bring it Thursday.

Arthur called during evening. He dropped the release form for CUPS in some (cont. on 5/25)