Word: gurley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Before the service, Richard Nixon leaned over to whisper hello to Jacqueline Kennedy, black-draped in the pew ahead, and received an icy stare in return. Such soulful spirituals as My Heavenly Father, Watch Over Me and If I Can Help Somebody were rendered so poignantly by Contralto Mary Gurley and Mrs. Jimmie Thomas, a soprano, of the Ebenezer Church Choir that Singer Mahalia Jackson, the misty mistress of mourning, began to weep silently...
...sexy career girl in the ads for Cosmopolitan magazine, which these days is aimed at readers who are just the opposite: single women, 18 to 34, who are not knockouts, who are unsure of themselves, who are searching for a man. It is a recipe concocted by Editor Helen Gurley Brown, 45, author of the bestselling Sex and the Single Girl, and it has turned a humdrum publication of women's features into a sort of female Playboy. Since the winsome Mrs. Brown took over three years ago, circulation has increased 16%, to more than 900,000, ad revenues...
...affluent one. As in Playboy, children are not pictured; they interfere with the free, untrammeled sex life. "I'm a materialist," says Editor Brown, "and it's a materialistic world. Nobody is keeping a woman from doing everything she wants to do but herself." Certainly not Helen Gurley Brown...
...sexy manuscripts and spending huge amounts of money on ballyhoo. Thus Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, a vulgar chronicle of three female predators on the make in Hollywood, sold more than 350,000 hard-cover copies and 6,000,000 more in paperback. Helen Gurley Brown's guide for swingers, Sex and the Single Girl sold about 2,500,000 copies In each case Gais, assisted by his promotion department, a fetching blonde named Letty Cottin Pogrebin, spent more than $80,000 on advertising...
...such leg-pulling, the star is blithely oblivious. "Most people," she says, "expect Helen Gurley Brown to be fierce and fiery. They're surprised to find me a nice old brown wren...