NO, not him.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Buck" <rbuck@xmission.com>
To: "joseph lance" <jolylance@earthlink.net>; "Doug Odom"
<dlodom@charter.net>; "Wester Potter" <wester6935@comcast.net>
Cc: "landspeed@autox.team.net" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Non LSR: remember her?
> Is this the same Bill Ward who ran the orange #30 Opel GT in Modified
> Sports? His drawings seemed more cartoon-like than Vargas's.
>
> And yes, I remember Vargas and his art (I musta been a bit precocious,
> Wes...I found 'em in my father's Playboys. Until he started hiding 'em.
> But I always seemed to find the occasional tidbit under the front seat of
> his 53 Buick. Never saw the Esquire pics, though) and he was fantastic.
> I still have a collection of his drawings in digital form.
>
> I also remember Bettie Page and the famous bangs. I'd read about her
> getting religion, but I didn't realize that she had reconciled it with her
> modelling. She was a very lovely lady. I always thought that her best
> photos were done by Bunny Yeager, who was also a pinup model...but wielded
> a mean Speed Graphic camera, too.
>
> RtR
>
> At 11:15 PM 12/12/2008, joseph lance wrote:
>>I remember the "Vargas girls" but my all-time favorites were (and are) the
>>drawings of Bill Ward. See www.womenofward.net and several other internet
>>sites displaying his work.
>>
>>Lance
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Wester Potter"
>><wester6935@comcast.net>
>>To: "Doug Odom" <dlodom@charter.net>
>>Cc: "landspeed@autox.team.net" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
>>Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 6:39 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Non LSR: remember her?
>>
>>
>>>I'm a little older than most of you and remember the "Vargas girls"
>>>Alberto Vargas did for Esquire very well. I am reminded of how lovely
>>>they were every time I pull out the CD "The Last of the Whorehouse Piano
>>>Players" By Ralph Sutton and Jay McShann with one of his nudes on the
>>>front. Photography is wonderful but nothing can touch the allure of
>>>those Vargas drawings. Betty Paige just couldn't compete, even in
>>>Playboy. And, come to think of it the music is great too, that's why I
>>>pull it out of the drawer ... the illustration is just the bonus. I'm
>>>going to dub off a copy to have in the car, minus the illustration
>>>however. Just great piano playing!
>>>
>>>Wes
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