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From: showard@udenva.UUCP (showard)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Gygax fired
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Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 16:53:39 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 18 16:53:39 1985
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>      This last weekend at a Halloween party with some former TSR employees
> I heard that Gary Gygax has been released (fired) from his position as
> president and chairman of the board of TSR.  This occured October 20.
> Due to some recent financial difficulties he lost majority control of
> the company stock.  How do you think this will affect the gaming industry?

  Well, having already told you what it would mean IF it were true, I might
as well let you know that it isn't, at least according to the best information
I have.  The November _Dragon_ has a profile of Gygax which includes his future
plans, etc.  Also, TSR is doing very well financially.  These two pieces of 
evidence (although I know the November _Dragon_ was put together long before
10/20--they still had time to pull the one-page feature) suggest that this was
just another silly rumor, as most of us suspected all along.

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