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6/20
6/19
6/18
21 Thursday - June 1973
Corpus Christi - First Day of Summer - 172nd Day - 193 Days to Come

Bob Reiss was at the INTERNATIONAL GAME SHOW ([illegible word crossed out] in Chicago for other business) for a few minutes. Said hello. I asked and he said the p & p games are doing well.

Spoke to Keith Tuggle a few times.
They are sending back INVASION and THE BRAIN GAME since Felicia wants money for holding them. They like them and may ask to see them again, if we don't place them elsewhere. I told him that, realistically, they will probably still be available.
He doesn't know if Kathy has rcd. SPECTRUM yet.
In connection with the 3M p. & p. games they have been trying to buy a set of the Hoi Polloi games to look at but haven't been able to find them. If I can find them in New York I'll send them to him (and he'll pay me for them).
Later in [illegible words crossed out] a dept. store I bought a copy of a Swedish p & p BATTLE SHIPS for 75¢ and gave it to Keith. (Wouldn't take money for it.)
He said they have some more "American Greetings" game and which do I need. I told him BROKEN ENGLISH and FAIR SHAKE. If they have them he'll send them to me.

Spoke to Larry Blandin. The only two members he has for the panel are Roger Velhulst and Allan Calhamer. He is sorry that he never sent me the tape of last year's seminar or the list of his suggestions. He will place all the chairs in a circle so that the seminar will be informal.
Larry introduced me to Allan Calhamer. We discussed, among other things, his game HYPER-SPACE. He had little success with it. I told him that I had played it and remembered having some ideas for improvements, though I didn't remember what they were. Offered to send them to him but he didn't seem very interested.

Spoke to Bob Johnson. He likes HONORABLE RELATIONS very much as a puzzle. (He has solved the first one I sent him and hasn't been able to solve the last.) Burt Huber has rcd. [received] the finished model - in perfect condition - and they will be playing it next week. Bob has been propagandizing Burt on it.
Bob had no word on the orders for the original six puzzle games. Their operation is being computerized and they won't know anything until it is completed, at the end of the month.

Rcd. a review copy of THE WATERGATE SCANDAL, which was exhibiting at the show. // Also rcd. a copy of TEE OFF (presumably) by Sam Snead. Actually the man said he had made it up.
To the stores. Saw the following: -
-Brentano's THE CIPHER FILE (which I later remembered I had
(cont. on 6/20)