Longtime Cosmo Editor Helen Gurley Brown Dies at 90

[Lucy Goosey]

Source: Time

(NEW YORK) — Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine who invited millions of women to join the sexual revolution, has died. She was 90.

Brown died Monday at a hospital in New York after a brief hospitalization, Hearst CEO Frank A. Bennack, Jr. said in a statement.

“Sex and the Single Girl,” her grab-bag book of advice, opinion, and anecdote on why being single shouldn’t mean being sexless, made a celebrity of the 40-year-old advertising copywriter in 1962.

Three years later, she was hired by Hearst Magazines to turn around the languishing Cosmopolitan and it became her bully pulpit for the next 32 years.


Read more: http://entertainment.time.com/2012/08/13/longtime-cosmo-editor-helen-gurley-brown-dies-at-90/

[xchrom]

1. Here's to you, Ms Brown.

[azurnoir]

2. RIP Helen

I think I was about 10 when I read her book, it was an influence

[MissMarple]

3. I'm going to have a martini and toast Helen.

I don't drink cosmos, or I'd make one of those.

[nolabear]

4. RIP Ms. Brown. You were at the front.

I'd love to have been a fly on her wall. What a time! I'll have a Cosmo in her honor.

[alp227]

5. My condolences to her family, but I wonder how her magazine decomposed over the past decade?

Ana Kasparian and the TYT University crew mock the silly advice in the modern magazine: http://www.youtube.com/user/tytuniversity/videos?query=cosmo