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Brown & Bigelow

Brown & Bigelow Co., St. Paul, Minnesota (1920s–2001)

1896 B&B founded

1927 B&B starts making Hoyle brand playing cards

19 .... B&B forms Stancraft Products division

196.. B&B acquired by Standard Packaging Corporation

1970 SPC acquired by Saxon Industries, Inc.

1975 Stancraft Products renamed Hoyle Products, Inc.

2001 Hoyle Products, Inc. acquired by USPC (United States Playing Card Company)^H

Playing card brands:

• Hoyle® (1927—)
• Kent® (c.1970s)
• Maverick® (c.1970—)
• Nu-Vue Playing Cards (pre-1964)
• Nu-Vue™ tint (c.1960s reduce eye strain)
• Redi-Slip® Finish
• Remembrance Playing Cards (c.1940–1950s)
• Trump® (c.1970s)
• Stardust® (c.1970s)

Manufactured cards for:

• James Hardie Spicers (c.1980–81)
• Nasco Playing Cards (Chicago)
• Miguel Galas, S.A. (México, c.1960)
• Queen’s Slipper (Australia, c.1979/80)
• Reeds (Australia, c.1970s)
• Spicers (Australia)

Decks

52 American Beauties by Elvren

Plastic Coated Playing Cards (c.1955)

• Red Snake Charmer Deck
• Green Snake Charmer Deck

• Esquire Playing Cards (54 topless models, 4¾×6¾″)
• Gil Elvgren 52 American Beauties (1950s)
• Gil Elvgren Top Hat 52 Gorgeous Girls (1950s)
• Gil Elvgren Sexy Girls 54 Images (2000s, China)
• Gil Elvgren Collection № 1 (2004, Russia) 52+2 pin-ups
• Gil Elvgren Collection № 2 (2004, Russia) 52+2 pin-ups
• Gil Elvgren Collection № 3 (2004, Russia) 52+2 pin-ups
• Marilyn Monroe cards (2 decks, ©1976 Kelley Studios)
• Models of all Nations (c.1940s, 9♥ Betty White)

Vargas

Esquire

Varga Girl Playing Cards – Esquire magazine

1941

• (blond in shear top with cards on red background)
• (blond in shear top and hat on blue background)

1942)

• “A” Deck (woman reclining nude on blue background)
• “B” Deck (woman stand in dress on pink background)

1943)

• (blond kneeling in leopard-print one-piece on black background)
• (redhead crouching in leopard-print one-piece on blue background)

1944)

• (blond reclining in blue bottoms on a red background)
• (redhead reclining in red bottoms on a blue background)

1945)

• (blond sitting in white one-piece on a red background)
• (blond sitting away in white one-piece on a blue background)

1946)

• (redhead sitting nude in yellow flowers with a green background)
• (redhead sitting away nude in white flowers with a brown background)

Fabulous Females

No. 1 • 25​¢ • 75 glamorous photos of the world’s most beautiful woman

A who’s who of pin-up queens: Marilyn Monroe, Anita Ekburg, Sophia Loren, Kim Novak, Mamie Van Doren, Jayne Mansfield, and many others!

A delicious dozen of the world’s reigning beauties in a collection of intimate photos.

Published and copyright 1955 by Literary Enterprises, Inc. Printed in the U.S.A.

Irish McCalla

A fair Nebraska colleen came to California to seek her fortune, wound up as an African jungle queen

America’s television screens will soon be displaying the talents of a colleen out of Pawnee City, Nebraska. the aforementioned talents will be surrounded by a jungle-type bikini fashioned out of a leopard’s pride and joy. The leopard never did for his skin what Irish McCalla does, however. As “Sheena, Queen of the Jungle,” Irish gets her first big break toward a movie career. Until now, her face and figure have adored most of the country’s magazines. One of eight children, Irish left Nebraska to find her fortune in California, and she may have struck gold at last. Which will be all right with the girl who once worked as a waitress and a trouble-shooter in an aircraft factory before going into modelling. Meanwhile, Irish is happy to swing her five-foot-eight-inch frame from tree to tree à la Johnny Weissmuller if it means a chance to make good in Hollywood.

The McCalla measurements are fabulous—39-inch bust, 25-inch waist, 36-inch hips. Irish keeps in trim by swimming, surfboard riding and generally acting athletic.

Soft lighting can’t hide the form that made Irish one of the most popular models in California.