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13 Tuesday - February 1973
44th Day - 321 Days to Come


Finished the letter to Earl Doherty. Mentioned CAMPAIGN, ALBION, and CHESSWORD. Also 4000 A.D., WASHINGTON POST, and SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER.

Rcd. [received] letter from Lou Zocchi. Mentioned STAR TREK, ALIEN SPACE, 4000 A.D., BATTLE OF BRITAIN, Charlie Hartman, AMERICAN GAMES ASSOC., SIMULATION/GAMING/NEWS, & BIG LEAGUE MANAGER. He also mentioned Michele Llyod (with two Ls) again in connection with S&T.
Wrote to Michele Lloyd apologizing for misspelling her name on 2/11.

Wrote to Walter Dykowski. Mentioned BOOK WORLD, S&T, STRATO TAC-TICS, STRATO CHECKERS, and CRESCENDO.

Jerry D'Arcey called from California to ask if there is any game with the name SUE ME, or any games on that theme. He thought Parker might be interested if he makes it simple eng enough. Told him about TORTS-THE GAME OF SUIT AND COUNTERSUIT.
Later sent a memo to Jerry telling him about LAWSUIT, mentioned its similarity to TOURING.

Was going to write to Mike Abrams and Gary Shirts but started looking for my rules on STARPOWER, which shirts offered to send me. Finally found it.

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(cont. from 2/15) [2/15]


of my EXECUTIVE DECISION royalties, and we explained the circumstances to Felicia. Later gave Claude a check for $84.67.

Earlier bought a package of small self-stick white circles. And then four bulbs for the tensor lamp.

At Felicia's looked at the pictures of THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS, FITTING & PROPER, and CUBITS. Took the rules of my two to go over. They dropped the game from THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS.

Rcd. Feb. [February] TOYS. There was an ad for "Lucky 13 Puzzle Games" in a bookshelf package - by Fireside Games, Inc. They will be at Toy Fair. LUCKY 13 PUZZLES.
In the G&R ad they listed, among other things, ARVESTA, BOOKWORM, CHIRP, EL GAME, & PUZZLE PATTERNS.

Felicia went over the biographical material I prepared last night for Hallmark and made a number of changes. I'll go over it tomorrow and send it with the rules.