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22 Monday - January 1973
22nd Day - 343 Days to Come

Rcd. [received] a letter from PLAYTHINGS with a questionaire directed towards toy wholesalers or retailers. (Discarded.)
Rcd. the 4th quarter royalty statement and check for $11.26 from Tom Atwater - for ODD OR EVEN, TEMPO, INTERPLAY, TRANSFORMATION.
Rcd. the FOCUS contracts (2) and a note from Bob Johnson.

Called Felicia to tell her that I rcd. the FOCUS contracts. Bob had told me to sign it and return it to her him without saying that Felicia should sign it. And there was no provision for her signature on the contract. She said to send it back but to call Bob's attention to the fact that she should sign it too. After she hung up I looked at the other Hallmark contracts and they were all the same. Some she had signed and others not.
Told her that I hadn't heard from Bob Gellman. Felicia called Ruth in Texas to tell her the "good news" about HOLIDAY.

Called Bill Eckhart in G.A.F. to ask about VIEWLINE and JUNGLE RACE. Out for the rest of the day. Supposed to be in tomorrow.

Call from Bob Gellman. The contract with Athol was signed Friday. He mentioned his call to Felicia and said that he had told her that he had told me not to say anything until it was definite.
HOLIDAY will be shown at Toy Fair - just the final artwork of the box.
He wants the PATTON game from me but there is no big hurry. By the beginning of May will be O.K. We both agreed that we don't want anything nearly as complicated as an A.H. [Avalon Hill] game or a Simulations. He met someone who was an A.H. "freak" but said that 1914 was completely unplayable.
He wants to be at the Stationery Show but can't afford a whole booth. He's thinking of contacting Jed Gaines about sharing one. He asked me if I knew how MYWORD! did at X'Mas [Christmas]. Told him that I see Jed but I don't ask him about business.
Bob asked me if I had any other games on the shelf, like HOLIDAY. Told him I had all kinds of things, and we'll go over them after Toy Fair and work on the '74 line. I asked about SCOTLAND YARD. That will be for '74.
Bob said that Urban Systems is now trying to get out of games. They have been hit by Judgements over THE GODFATHER GAME and THE HOWARD HUGHES GAME. Bob wondered if any of their games would be worth taking over. I told him that SMOG was their best game. But we both had doubts about sales potential for ecology games.
Took his new address: {Bob Gellman [address]
I'll drop by in the near future to look at the HOLIDAY box.

Called Fred Feucht.