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16 Friday - February 1973
47th Day - 318 Days to Come

Went over the biographical material, bringing in Felicia's changes. Went over the rules of FITTING & PROPER and THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS. Had a great deal of trouble with the latter since they made the 9 dials loose instead of fixed. Finished late in the evening, including a covering letter to Burt Huber.

3 calls from Felicia during day, mainly about her problems with scheduling manufacturers' visits during Toy Fair. Finally arranged that I will bring my things there on 2/21 at 9:00 A.M., possibly without rules. Bill Garrity of Schaper will be there at 9:00 A.M. They are moving into adult games. They are handling AMERICAN EXPRESS MONEY CARD GAME and are thrilled with how well it is doing. I mentioned the $11 edition Sandra Garson told me about. Felicia learned that that was the deluxe.
At 10:30 on 2/21 Dick Harris of M.B. will be there.
Bill Dohrmann will be there on Thursday. We'll decide later whether I should come for him.
The package came back from DDI. FOREIGN INTRIGUE and FREE FORM were in good condition. TANGLED WEB was all beat up. I told her that we might as well forget about it. It probably will be too expensive for what it does.
She had me check whether M.B. or Parker had seen PAIR OFF or FREE FORM. Neither company had seen either game.
She rcd. [received] the publicity material from THE INTERNATIONAL GAME SHOW and was impressed that I was featured. The 18 games didn't seem to make her mad at all, just mentioning that there were probably some she didn't know about. I told her that Blandin had pretty much taken the 18 figure from a hat, which is true.
Claude came there to change a typewriter ribbon (which Felicia mentioned yesterday that she needed) and also cleaned the keys.

Called Martin Gardner to see if he knew the name of the Russian Magazine that reprinted his article on PATTERNS II - since Felicia thought it would be good to include in the biographical material for Hallmark. He didn't have it.
He has rcd. some game GAMEs from readers. We'll get together in a couple of weeks and he'll give them to me.

Rcd. the game TALLY from Jim Scully.

Phil Orbanes called by we were both busy and he call next Tuesday.

TIME Magazine (2/19) had an article on BACKGAMMON entitled "The Money Game." (Filed in '73 Misc.)

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