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12/38
December 1975 - Monday 29
363rd day - 2 days to come

Call from Felicia. She wrote to the man at 3M who sent the [illegible word crossed out] letter on selling the game line (see 12/9) - R.J. May with a carbon to Keith Tuggle. She rcd. an answer - signed by A.C. Dickerson, which pretty much just repeated what the original letter said - perhaps emphasizing that the games should stay together as a whole.
In her meetings with Parker [Parker Brothers] and with M.B. [Milton Bradley] they were surprised at the news on 3M - not having rcd. letters.
She has a game (whose?) called DON'T BURST POP MY BALLOON which is liked by Bob Hubbard of "Impact." She showed it to Dick Harris, who said there was a game put out by Ideal which is similar - BANG BOX. She From Dick's explanation of BANG BOX - there is a baloon [sic] in a box and players insert swords through holes hoping not to break the baloon - she doesn't think her game is at all like it.
She called Jules Cooper and asked him about it. He seemed pleased to hear from her and [illegible word crossed out] remembered her - altho she doesn't remember meeting him. He promised to send her a catalog sheet of the game, but it didn't come. She called back and he was out of town. She asked if I had my old Ideal catalogs. No, but I might be able to find it in old Toy Fair editions of the trade magazines. Looked later and found that Ideal didn't have ads in the March editions around '69 - which she thinks is about the year. I also looked at directory editions from '61 on and couldn't find BANG BOX listed.
Bill Dohrmann (who is now V.P. in charge of acquisitions) and Andrea Donahue (who is now the head of the dept.) were in to look at games. They liked MASTER SPY, WILD WILD WEST!, and DON'T BURST POP MY BALLOON but they are not seriously begin- ning to look until Feb. Felicia didn't let them take anything with them. In Feb. either they'll come again or and Alan will drive the two of them to Salem.
They didn't like STARSHIP EXPLORER.
Dick Harris, in his visit, took CIRCUS. He also liked OSMOSIS, and Felicia separated it from the rest of the group (how? since it is part of B-O-C-Q). Dick will give it to Mel Taft as a present. Mel is in charge of the M.B. European Subsidiaries and perhaps the game will be used there.
Dick (I am pretty sure she said that Dick said this) said that Parker is coming out in '76 with a space game. This and all their other games with will be gimmiky - no conventional board games. Dick will wait to see how P. does with a space game before thinking of doing one. Incidentally, he didn't like STARSHIP EXPLORER.
Felicia said she'd talk to Aladdin about RED LETTER. I told her about Ed Schifman wanting to see FOUR ARMED BANDIT. She'll try to set up a demonstration meeting.
I told her I had the Aladdin ad from G&P. I'll drop if off tomorrow.
Rcd. X-Mas card from Frank Thibault. Mentioned Jerry showing
(cont. on 12/28)

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