[1] Her second marriage was to "Marble King" Jack Pressman in 1942, who had founded the predecessor company in 1922 and had built the business up on the success of his acquisition of the rights to the game Chinese checkers in 1928 which became a nationwide bestseller and was still a mainstay for decades.
[1][2] With the rise of The Mickey Mouse Club, first broadcast in 1955, a series of toys were licensed from the Walt Disney Company, including Mouskatennis table tennis, a Mickey Mouse Counting Jump Rope and Fun Tray, a board game based on the Davy Crockett television series and other toys inspired by Disney.
[1] She used her fashion sense and marketing skills to create more appealing packaging for games and was an early user of television to advertise the firm's products.
[3] Raymond described herself as having "bad hair"[3] and was a big fan of wearing distinctive hats from among the hundreds of designs she owned that were created by milliner Mr.
[1] A resident of Manhattan's Upper East Side near the Whitney Museum of American Art, Raymond died at her apartment at age 97 on July 22, 2009.