Word: helene
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...paper, the fashion drawings, the photography, the writing-and within a decade Vogue became the nation's most influential, and most lucrative, arbiter of fashion. In 1913 Nast launched Vanity Fair, a witty, literary monthly. He hired a succession of bright young women editors (Clare Boothe Luce, Helen Lawrenson, Millicent Fenwick, Marya Marines) and gave them carte blanche...
...spent diocesan money, closed inner-city schools and reassigned priests with little or no consultation. In later years he became increasingly isolated from his clergymen, nuns and laity. His last months were darkened by accusations that he diverted up to $1 million in church moneys to aid his stepcousin, Helen Wilson. Cody denied any wrongdoing but regally refused to offer an explanation of how his funds had been used...
...about pushups. A woman who is more aware of her physicality will probably be more aware of her sexuality. The inspiration of the fitness gurus was to set exercise to the disco beat and make the regimen fun; sex is, after all, a form of exercise for two. Says Helen Gurley Brown, who, as editor of Cosmopolitan, is paid to think about Topic A: "Women are becoming real sexual athletes now. Health gives women stamina that allows them to give full range to their sex drive...
...many groups which sponsor the teach-ins is Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) which was founded by Harvard Cardiologist Dr. Bernard Lown in 1960. Boasting 14,000 members nationwide. PSR is the largest professional anti-nuclear organization. The group is now headed by former Harvard pediatrician Dr. Helen Caldicott, while Lown and other colleagues at Harvard the Soviet Union...
AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER by Mario Vargas Llosa Translated by Helen R. Lane; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 374 pages...