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11/11 11/9 11/8 FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER 1970 317th day - 48 days to come

Finished up PLOY and then wrote up CARDINO. BB finished the typing and brought the two manuscripts to BOOK WORLD and to Vidmer's office. Red Simonsen there and took the S&T manuscript. Vidmer looked at it and said "More 3M games." BB said "Why not?" Received three copies of S&T #23. The full game is TACTICAL GAME: T-34 - a miniature type game - with no board.

Received the material from Michael Dummett, also a note asking if I rcd. his last two letters. The writeup on Chinese Games was quite extensive and very well organized. Glanced thru it, but will have to wait awhile to really read thru it. Tried to call Michael, but no answer.

Felicia called. She met Dick Littlefield and he said that this quarter sales of 3M games in his area are running 10% over last year. X has finally sent an option contract on Connor's TOTTER. X wants to send a contract for PENTHOUSE, after rejecting it. Felicia told Bob Edwards that Steve Barkoczy doesn't want to deal with them. She also said that I could do a puzzle better than that. I pointed out that I didn't want to knock off Steve's idea, which basically was to take a matching puzzle, such as NITTY GRITTY, and put it into 3 dimensions. Bob once mentioned that PENTHOUSE was similar to THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS. Felicia told Bob that there were loads of matching puzzles and Bob admitted he wasn't up on everything on the market. The company that Felicia went to Boston as a consultant licensed the manufacture of their CUBE GAME, which is actually a puzzle with cubes and magnets, to another company and then bugged that company so much about not making their monthly payment on the dot that they returned it. Now X is interested in it but the Boston company is bugging them with exact details of manufacture. Felicia told X that they might be more agreeable on this if they would be given a definite date for publication. X told her that she could tell them a definite date would be given; in fact she could just about tell anyone that. (Felicia is not getting an agent's fee on this - just good will.) She told me to bring as many two-hand skill games with me as possible on Tuesday. I said I had to make models, but she said that I didn't have to make a fancy job. She told Bob that these were games that had been around and he is not going to expect them to be in mint con- dition. Also they took TRIAGO just from the rules, without even seeing the model. (See 11/12.) (cont. on 11/11)