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	Helen Gurley Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Helen Gurley Brown was born in Green Forest, Arkansas on 7 December 1922.
		Brown's father died in accident when she was young and her sister was a victim of polio.
		In 1959 she married David Brown who was a producer of Jaws, The Sting, Cocoon, Driving Miss Daisy, and other motion pictures.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/h/he/helen_gurley_brown.html (299 words)

	Brown, Helen Gurley on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Helen Gurley Brown arrives to the premiere of Broadway's new musical comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" held at The Imperial Theatre in New York, on March 3, 2005.
		Helen Gurley Brown and David Brown arrive at the World Premiere of "The Manchurian Candidate" held at Clearview Cinema's Beekman Theatre in Manhattan, New York, on Monday, July 19, 2004.
		Helen Gurley-Brown and her husband David Brown arrive at New York's Beekman theatre to attend the "Human Stain" premiere, Wednesday, September 10, 2003.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/BrownH1G1.asp (624 words)

	From Homemakers To Corporate Mistresses Helen Gurley Brown Is A Dubious Role Model
		In 1965, Helen Gurley Brown, the editor of Cosmopolitan, said that a housewife was "a parasite, a dependent, a scrounger, a sponger or a bum."
		As editor of Cosmopolitan (1965-97), Brown was a role model and "teacher" for career women in America and around the world (36 foreign editions.) She married at age 37 and remained childless.
		Brown's excuse is that she was a helping a mother and invalid sister back in Arkansas.
	www.rense.com /general33/brown.htm (1423 words)

	Brown, Helen Gurley
		Born on February 18, 1922, in Green Forest, Arkansas, Helen Gurley was a student at Texas State College for Women (1939-41; now Texas Women's University) and at Woodbury Business College (1942).
		Brown's other books include Helen Gurley Brown's Outrageous Opinions (1966), Helen Gurley Brown's Single Girl's Cookbook (1969), Sex and the New Single Girl (1970), Having It All (1982), and The Late Show: A Semiwild but Practical Survival Plan for Women over 50 (1993).
		She established the Helen Gurley Brown Research Professorship at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and she was inducted into the Publisher's Hall of Fame in 1988.
	www.britannica.com /women/articles/Brown_Helen_Gurley.html (382 words)

	Salon.com People \| Helen Gurley Brown
		Helen Gurley was born poor in rural Arkansas in 1922.
		Following Brown's logic is to traverse a maze of female motive and opportunity -- fascinatingly in sync and at odds with the feminist spirit of the '60s sexual revolution.
		In a tempest-tossed era of liberation, Helen Gurley Brown penned books and revived a magazine that grappled with the times' conundrums: how single women should define themselves, wield their newfound rights to have sex and to work, and -- most importantly -- reconcile liberation with attraction and affection toward men.
	www.salon.com /people/bc/2000/09/26/contest_winner_brown (1185 words)

	Sex and the octogenarian - smh.com.au
		Helen Gurley Brown is on the other side of 80, but that doesn't stop the first sex and the cityette from wearing fishnets or advising how to get a man.
		Helen Gurley Brown may be 81 years old but her wardrobe is that of a 21-year-old.
		Gurley Brown admits that one of the biggest changes for women since the first publication of Sex and the Single Woman is that they no longer suffer the same social pressure to get married.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/07/07/1057430133786.html?from=storyrhs (1717 words)

	Newhouse A1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		That was when Helen Gurley Brown took over a general-interest magazine, one that was so old (born in 1886) that Rudyard Kipling once had written for it.
		Brown was the author of the 1963 best seller "Sex and the Single Girl," and that was enough to get her a shot at turning Cosmopolitan into a women's magazine that got noticed.
		The magazine soon became an extension of Helen Gurley Brown's gutsy and eccentric personality -- she used words such as "mouseburger" to describe the kind of blah and boring woman you didn't want to be -- and it sold like gangbusters.
	www.newhousenews.com /archive/theiss081905.html (756 words)

	Dear Pussycat : Mash Notes and Missives from the Desk of Cosmopolitan's Legendary Editor: Current Amazon U.S.A. ...
		Brown, the longtime editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and author of the groundbreaking (for its time, 1962) Sex and the Single Girl, has compiled a book consisting of letters that she has written to friends and acquaintances.
		Brown, now in her 80s, gurgles enthusiastically in the introduction about her lifelong passion for writing letters and about how she has been told her letters have a "special" quality.
		Helen Gurley Brown is a style and publishing legend who was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for thirty-two years, and the author of TK books, including Sex and the Single Girl and The Writer's Rules.
	www.ferretexpert.info /stuff-0312317573.html (664 words)

	KATV Channel 7 - Founding Editor of Cosmo Talks About Arkansas Roots
		As a young girl, Brown says she was not the belle of the ball, so her mother encouraged her to be smart.
		Brown says she wanted other women to know it was okay to be single.
		It is very clear that Helen Gurley Brown is a woman who found what she is good at, what she may not have known is that she has inspired others to do the same.
	www.katv.com /news/stories/0505/225048.html (743 words)

	print 98.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She is known to all as the original "Cosmogirl." Helen Gurley Brown, a women not afraid to speak her mind, that proved through hard work and dedication you can achieve what seems to be unachievable.
		Helen Gurley was born February 18, 1922 in Arkansas's Ozark Mountains.
		Brown has let women know that this work can be a source of pride and accomplishment both on the personal and financial level.
	www.jcu.edu /communications/print98.htm (3520 words)

	village voice > books > Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown by Caitlin Macy
		Settling down with Helen Gurley Brown for an evening, via her 1962 exhortation to premarital gratification, Sex and the Single Girl, is much like sharing Thanksgiving dinner with a scandalously un-p.c.
		Brown always includes herself among the latter, nowhere more emphatically than in her unforgettable first-page manifesto: "I am not beautiful, or even pretty.
		Brown's declaration sounds the opening note in a theme she returns to again and again, of us (career girls who have to work at it) versus them (great beauties/movie stars/ certifiably glamorous international jet-setters).
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0331/macy.php (845 words)

	Psychology Today: Bad girl
		Helen Gurley Brown, the original Cosmo girl, defies every label you wantto pin on her.
		HGB: Tina Brown, the editor of The New Yorker and former editor of Vanity Fair, is possibly the most brilliant editor in the world.
		HGB: They feel that Cosmo panders to men, that we try to make life comfortable for men, and you can't do that and be a feminist.
	cms.psychologytoday.com /articles/pto-19940301-000019.html (2511 words)

	Helen Gurley Brown - The Cosmo girl at 78. By David Plotz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brown says that she made Cosmo for "mouseburgers" like herself, "23-year-olds with their nose pressed against the glass" who learned how to make the best with what they had.
		Brown may have encouraged cavorting with married men, but she was too busy to do it herself.
		Brown today is perceived as an artifact, because she is (supposedly) devoted to a philosophy that is not only wrong but archaic: Women should live to get men.
	slate.msn.com /id/78865 (1315 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Helen Gurley Brown
		Images of women like Helen Gurley Brown, who showed us sexy women could have careers, and Katharine Hepburn, who wore pants and played characters as smart as she was, opened the door for women's brains to come out of the lingerie drawer.
		For Helen Gurley Brown, for 31 years the editor of Cosmopolitan and the author of perhaps the original dating manual, Sex and the Single Girl, which was published in 1962, the lives and concerns of Lavinthal and her friends show that not much has changed in 30 years, except perhaps the verbs.
		Helen Gurley Brown touting the skin-enhancing properties of semen followed by the usual array of humorless '70s feminists who, we are led to believe, turned Deep Throat's uninhibited star, Linda Lovelace, into a repentant prude.
	authors.surfwax.com /files/Helen_Gurley_Brown_Book.html (1833 words)

	DOL of Fame - March 9, 2004
		Helen Gurley Brown's 1962 book Sex and the Single Girl was a boon to a whole new generation of women who were entering the workforce and trying to learn to navigate career, love, and sex in the new era of permissiveness ushered in by the changing times and the pill.
		Helen was made editor-in-chief, the Cosmo Girl and her motto "Fun.
		Though Helen's message, that a woman could be sexy, glamorous, and strong, was at odds with much militant feminism of the '70s, the magazine and Helen continued to thrive.
	dolshouse.com /fame04/09.htm (398 words)

	Decorating : Other : Helen Gurley Brown : Home & Garden Television
		Helen (the successful writer and editor who turned the failing magazine Cosmopolitan around in the mid-Sixties) and David (an Academy Award winner and producer of such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) adore city living and their sumptuous home.
		Helen calls her style lush and busy: lush with textures, colors and patterns, and busy with vases, pictures and pillows.
		Helen and David are private people and although they enjoy having company occasionally they are content to be at home with each other.
	www.hgtv.com /hgtv/dc_home_tours_other/article/0,1793,HGTV_3460_1381497,00.html (454 words)

	Encyclopedia: Helen Gurley Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The term cosmopolitan refers to an individual who retains cultural roots in his or her country of origin, yet has adopted a wide taste for other cultures, and so lives both a local and global life.
		Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the...
		Jaws (1975) is an American film, based upon a bestselling novel by Peter Benchley, which tells the story of a resort towns sheriff who tries to protect beachgoers from the predations of a huge great white shark by closing the beach, only to be overruled by the town council.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Helen-Gurley-Brown (800 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: I'm Wild Again: Snippets from My Life and a Few Brazen Thoughts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brown's self-portrait as stingy and demanding is in sharp contrast to that of her husband of 40 years, movie producer David Brown, whom she paints as a dapper, generous genius.
		Brown, who transformed Cosmo into a powerhouse, is a publicity pro who can still charm (though replaced in the editor's chair at age 74, she is still editor-in-chief of the international editions).
		Helen Gurley Brown tells it like it was, and her life has been more interesting than any fictional character's.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312251920?v=glance (1618 words)

	Helen Gurley Brown
		Helen Gurley studied at Texas State College for Women (now Texas Women's University) from 1939 to 1941, and at Woodbury Business College in 1942.
		Circulation and advertising revenue soared, and Brown remained at the helm until 1996.
		Helen Gurley Brown - Brown, Helen Gurley, 1922–, American writer and editor, b.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0880143.html (135 words)

	David Brown
		Brown still puts in at his Midtown Manhattan office, where he burrows for the next blockbuster to produce either on screen or on the stage.
		Brown says that when he is falling asleep, he listens to Joe Franklin's songs of the 20's on WOR-AM and contemplates.
		Brown is not ready to stop working, even when circumstances suggest he may be pushing it.
	www.lukeford.net /profiles/profiles/david_brown.htm (318 words)

	Helen Gurley Brown Biography / Biography of Helen Gurley Brown Biography Biography
		After Gurley Brown became editor of the faltering Cosmopolitan, she transformed it into a sexy, upbeat top-selling magazine for young women in more than 27 different countries.
		Helen Gurley Brown was born in Green Forest, Arkansas, on February 18, 1922, and lived in Little Rock, Arkansas until her father, Ira M. Gurley, a schoolteacher, was killed in an elevator accident.
		Gurley Brown's mother, Cleo (nee Sisco), was left to raise their two daughters.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-helen-gurley-brown (186 words)

	Cameron's Home Page: Cosmopolitan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brown approached Hearst with the idea of creating a new magazine based on the philosophy of her book, Sex and the Single Girl, advising girls on how to get the best from their lives, jobs and relationships.
		Helen Gurley Brown was a bright, exciting editor with celebrity status and a large part of the magazine's success was down to her personality.
		She believed that there were millions of girls out there looking for self-improvement, an interesting job, a good relationship and a better sex life.
	people.smu.edu /cddixon/cosmopolitan.html (564 words)

	Live Life to Its Fullest: Lessons from Helen Gurley Brown
		Her father died when she was 10 years old, her mother was severely depressed and she spent a lot of time caring for her older sister, who was wheelchair-bound from childhood polio.
		Brown runs the international editions of Cosmo and continues an active social life.
		Brown is author of several books, including the groundbreaking Sex and the Single Girl and the memoir Iâm Wild Again (Warner Books).
	www.bottomlinesecrets.com /blpnet/article.html?article_id=27032 (1268 words)

	Salon Books \| Blond ambition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There is more reality, guts and vigor in two pages of 78-year-old Brown's recent autobiography, "I'm Wild Again," than in Ilyin's whole book -- and you can bet that if Brown had a graduate degree she wouldn't go around ashamed of it.
		Brown -- Arkansas born, no college degree, 17 secretarial jobs before she wrote "Sex and the Single Girl" -- is fascinating even pushing 80.
		For one thing, Brown is as forthright as, well, a man in her comfort with her power and success.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/2000/03/24/blondes/index1.html (519 words)

	CNN - Helen Gurley Brown's upfront style has taken Cosmopolitan to the top - April 22, 1998
		CNN - Helen Gurley Brown's upfront style has taken Cosmopolitan to the top - April 22, 1998
		Helen Gurley Brown's upfront style has taken Cosmopolitan to the top
		But Helen Gurley Brown is one of the most powerful women in the magazine world.
	www.cnn.com /STYLE/9804/22/gurley (74 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Sex and the Single Girl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Helen Gurley Brown, tells women how to fill their lives with romance and delectable men.
		My sisters and I devoured Helen Gurley Brown's "Having It All" back in the 80s, so we were delighted to hear that her first book was back in print.
		Brown attacks her perennial subject, that of taking charge, taking yourself and your endeavors seriously, and making the most of your life, with her characteristic vigor, honesty, and humor.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1569802521 (409 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Writer's Rules: The Power of Positive Prose--How to Create It and Get It Published (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Despite her meteoric rise from office secretary to longtime editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown is an odd fit as an author of a book about writing.
		Here, Brown divulges her secrets to writing thank-you notes, effective complaint letters (be reasonable and slip in a touch of flattery), job-application letters, fan mail, condolence letters, and even love letters.
		Many of her rules are borrowed or adapted from Strunk and White's classic The Elements of Style, as she freely admits; some rules are questionable generalizations ("Place the most important words at the sentence's end"), and at times her advice is simplistic nonsense ("Make your first sentence and whole lead paragraph as...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0688159060 (500 words)

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