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8/18 8/19 8/17 THURSDAY 28 AUGUST 1969 240th day - 125 days to come

Tom Atwater called me yesterday just after I left the office. I called him but he was on the phone. He called me back, He had a letter from Jim Rockwell saying that believe it or not Alex' contract is in the final stages of prepar- ation. Nothing about me. Tom wonders what we should do about Jim and my games. I said that it was just about too late to make Martin's column. I told him about my changes in TEMPO and we agreed that I'd get out a set of the rules to Jim and one to him. I asked him about HAGGLE. The one that put up the money for MEM wants to concentrate on that game. Tom & Anatole are trying to talk Armbruster (of INSTANT INSANITY) into putting it out. They are offer- ing him an exclusive (?) for sometime for the whole country and a continual one for the west coast. Tom promised to send me the rules for HAGGLE.

Two copies (one for Claude) of the September PACE Magazine came.

[crossed out line] Rcd. the following from Donald Miller of NFFF (no letter):- The Gamesman #2 The Gamesman #3 Ye Faerie Chesseman #1 Ye Faerie Chesseman #2 JETAN rulesheet

Jerry D'Arcey called me at work and then drove here from Kennedy. Discussed during evening:- JUG-A-LUG :- This was supposed to have been sold to Lakeside, but he didn't get his money. Then one day he called to see why; Hank Simmons told him that the reason was because they were returning it. Jerry wrote to Preston Geis (who is the president of Leisure Dynamics which has taken over Lakeside. He originally came from General Mills and then had something to do with Parker) complaining about Hank Simmons and saying he was vindictive. He received conciliatory letters from both Hank and Geis. Parker now has the game and they are quite interested. KUFU - Parker is interested in this again, particularly if they can get the 4 sided figures as cheaply as Jerry says they can from Japan. Jerry owns the die for forming them. UPTIGHT - Jerry, BB, and I played. The new equipment consists of "hands" mounted on sticks for picking up the pieces and a "foot" for each player which is used in- stead of the net for passing over. The pcs. consist of three each of the shapes shown, all the same length. [drawing of circle, square, triangle, and pentagon] (cont. on 8/18)