Helen Gurley Brown | 1922 - 2012
By MARGALIT FOX - New York Times
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Helen Gurley Brown was Cosmopolitan’s editor from 1965 until 1997.
Ms. Brown, who wrote the best-selling book “Sex and the Single Girl” and was the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan, was widely credited with being the first to introduce frank discussions of sex into magazines for women.
As Cosmopolitan’s editor from 1965 until 1997, Ms. Brown was widely credited with being the first to introduce frank discussions of sex into magazines for women. The look of women’s magazines today — a sea of voluptuous models and titillating cover lines — is due in no small part to her influence.
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