Talk:McCalla

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

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.

Contents

2	Mara Corday
4–11	Anita Ekberg
12–19	Sophia Loren
20–23	Marilyn Monroe
24–31	Kim Novak
32–39	Jayne Mansfield
40–45	Mamie Van Doren
46–51	Abbe Lane
52–57	Ziva Shapir
58–64	Rita Moreno
62–65	Marla English
66–67	Irish McCalla
68–75	Lynn LampertFfix

Irish McCalla

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

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.