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17 Wednesday - January 1973
Benjamin Franklin Born 1706 - 17th Day - 348 Days to Come

Rcd. [received] a copy of their game STARLORD and a letter from Gary Bedrosian and Lee Elmendorf.
Rcd. a letter from David Zea of "Midwest Research and Analysis" and a new driver cards for UNITED STATES AUTO CLUB RACING GAME, for 1972. Also plastic cars instead of cardboard.
Rcd. a post card from Don Turnbull. He is announcing a competition in game design in non-war category. He wants me to be a judge together with him. ALBION.
Rcd. issue #44 of THE GAMESLETTER (which had been held up because of Don Miller's mimeo concking out. Mentions of CHAOS, CHAOS II, ANARCHY I, TRACTICS, SLOBOVIA, & MILITARISM II.
Also rcd. issue #48. In a Belgian Magazine mentioned a 2-player DIPLOMACY variant, a 4- player CHESS game, RATTI-CHITTI-BAKRI, TERHUCHU, LES GURRIERS DE PIERRE, TABLUT, PRINTEMPS and YOUNGSTOWN VARIANT (2 DIPLOMACY variants), HIT HANOI, MUHLE; my column in BOOK WORLD with a mention of S&T and AGOG; announcement of a companion game to STAR TREK by Lou Zocchi, ALIEN SPACE; announcement of THECOLOGY by "Hartman's (Inexpensive see 1/15) Games"; flyer for BATTLE FLAG magazine.
Also rcd. a form to fill out on how I want my money credits applied to his new setup of magazines.

Felicia called. Someone was interested in games and she thought of HOLIDAY. She contacted Bob Gellman and he told her about the Athol deal and said: "Don't you see Sid?" - and he specifically told me not to tell Felicia until it was definite. He told Felicia that the signing will be this Friday. Felicia wasn't upset about my not telling her.
Felicia said she has been getting some interesting things in and was even thinking of having a cocktail party so that the manufacturers could look over the material. But we discussed it and decided that it is much better to see them one at a time.
She said that Bob Johnson is very anxious to look at 2-hand strategy games. I asked how come when he has so many already. She thinks that they intend to put out a long series of them under the Springbok name, similar to the jig-saw puzzles. Told her about PUSH OVER. She said she is not showing him anything until after we get the contract and advance on FOCUS.
Told Felicia I was calling Kathy Brooks about EXECUTIVE DECISION and asked if there was anything I should ask her. Felicia suggested that I check on the status of PROFIT.
Felicia rcd. the report on BALI. It was down slightly from last year.

Rcd. the book THE MOSCOW PUZZLES from Book-of-the-Month Club. (Total cost $9.08). As Martin Gardner said, it isn't great.

Thinking of possible ideas for strategy games for Hallmark:- DISPERSAL (see 7/11/65), SPACE STIX, OVER 'N OVER.
(cont. on 1/18)

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