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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.
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