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6 Saturday - January 1973
Feast of the Epiphany - 6th Day - 359 Days to Come

Letter from Warren Buell (mentioning G&P, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, and AGOG). Sent me a bunch of clippings:-
CROSSMATCH, from POPULAR SCIENCE. (Looks interesting.)
THE GREAT AMERICAN MOVIEMAKING GAME, from SATURDAY REVIEW.
"The Game Game", from SATURDAY REVIEW. (which I got on 12/14/72.)
ZINGO from COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATION. (see 2/18/72.)
Article on Frank Beesee, from LOS ANGELES TIMES, mentioning his games PASS-OUT, GULP' N GIGGLE, SIP-N-GO NAKED, SIP & STRIP, GETCHA, and PINK ELEPHANT.
A satirical article from SATURDAY REVIEW, with two "games" - HIGH TENSION HEADACHE and TRACK OR TREAT.
Ad for COMMUNITY AT THE CROSSROADS, from Govt. Printing Office (which I have.)
Article, from AARP NEWS BULLETIN, on Ernest Ekstrand a retired inventor who has come up with several children's games:- FOXY, PUCKERETTE, and NUGOLF.
Article, from, LOS ANGELES TIMES on THE WELFARE GAME.
Article on QUICK MASTER CHESS.
Article, from NEWSWEEK, on AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY MYSTERY GAME. and THE BLACK EXPERIENCE (Theme Productions.)
Advertisement for LAWSUIT.
Article on THE WORLD GAME (by Ira Stollak.)

Rcd. [received] a letter from Carol Peterson, new at 3M, with a letter from a fan concerning an ACQUIRE ruling.
Rcd. the changed EXECUTIVE DECISON rules from Kathy Brooks.
Rcd. a GAME idea from Paul Greenough based on a "Weighing Puzzle."
Rcd. an invitation from Larry Blandin to lead a seminar at this year's INTERNATIONAL GAME SHOW in June.
Rcd. a card (not X'Mas [Christmas]) from Mike Abrams. Mentioned BLOCK 'N SCORE, VIKING KRIG-LEK, and THE GREAT DOWNHILL SKI GAME.

Korvettes had an ad for storage boxes - 14"x14 1/2"x24 1/2" - @ $1.00 each.

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I asked Larry if they had a transcript of Calhamer's (DIPLOMACY) seminar. No but they have a tape of part of it and Larry will send it to see how it went.
Larry asked me to send him listing of my published games and any other credits for use in their publicity.
In case of any question I can call him collect at any time. His home number is {[phone number]
Larry told me that a greeting card co. (then later saying that it was American Greetings) was coming out with games. I told him that I had seen them (DEADLOCK, LINK-UP, CONTROLLING INTEREST, CHESS N' CHECKERS, POUNCE, FAIR SHAKE, BROKEN ENGLISH, UPON-MY-WORD DE-TOUR, NIX) at the '72 shows. He said that they
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