Helen Gurley Brown

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Jennifer Senior, A Self-Help Seduction Guru, Shaking Up a Prudish America. New York Times, July 12, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/1 ... n-the-sex-guru.html
(book review on Gerri Hirshey, Not Pretty Enough; The unlikely triumph of Helen Gurley Brown. Sarah Crichton Books/FSG, July 12, 2016)

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"Helen Gurley Brown had an epiphany as a young woman, and it would inform a great many things she said and did in adult life: Sex is a great democratizer. 'Here was the silly little secret,' Gerri Hirshey writes in [the book.] 'Certainly, men love beautiful women. But when the lights went out, Miss Universe might just as well be the poor, sooty little match girl if she couldn't make him shout hallelujah [Hebrew: praise the Lord].'  So Helen Gurley Brown became an expert in the sack."

"she counted 178 lovers before marriage

Note:
(a) sack
(i) sack (n): "(colloquial, US) bed; usually as hit the sack [or hit the hay; both means 'go to bed'] or in the sack"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sack
(ii) a roll in the hay  (or the sack): "informal  an act of sexual intercourse"
http://www.oxforddictionaries.co ... the-hay-or-the-sack

(b) "sex can be weaponized! * * * over which Brown presided [over Cosmopolitan magazine] for 32 years. She was simply encouraging millions of ordinary-looking 'mouseburger' women like herself to go to war with the army they had, not the army they wish they had."
(i)
(A) mouseburger (n; based on mousy): "a humorous term for a drab, timid, or unexceptional woman"
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/mouseburger
(B) mouseburger (n; coined by Helen Gurley Brown): "a woman of no particular intellect or attractiveness"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mouseburger
(ii) mousy (adj): "of, relating to, or resembling a mouse: as
a: QUIET, STEALTHY
b: TIMID, RETIRING
c: grayish brown"

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(c) "Helen Gurley Brown is a fabulous story of American self-invention. Her life spanned almost an entire century [1922 – 2012]. * * * She was born in the Ozarks and had a difficult childhood * * * Yet somehow Brown willed herself into a glittering media czarina in Pucci. Along the way she dated glamorously, punched a hole in the glass ceiling of the West Coast advertising business"
(i) Helen Gurley Brown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Gurley_Brown
(born in Green Forest, Arkansas;

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In Los Angeles: "she worked for Foote, Cone & Belding advertising agency as a secretary. Her employer recognized her writing skills and moved her to the copywriting department, where she advanced rapidly to become one of the nation's highest-paid ad copywriters in the early 1960s. In 1959 she married David Brown [1916-2010], who would go on to become a noted film producer.

"In 1965, Brown became editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, then a literary magazine famed for high-toned content, and reinvented it as a magazine for the modern single career-woman. * * * In 1997, Brown was ousted [so, 32 years. See (b)]

(ii) Green Forest, Arkansas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Forest,_Arkansas
(a city; The population was 2,761 at the 2010 census)
(iii) Ozarks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozarks
(primarily located in Arkansas and Missouri; Although referred to as the Ozark Mountains, the region is actually a high and deeply dissected plateau' section 1 Etymology)
(iv) Emilio Pucci
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Pucci
(1914 – 1992; born to one of Florence's oldest noble families; a fashion designer; synonymous with geometric prints in a kaleidoscope of colours [go to images.google.com])

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(d) The author, Ms Hirshey, "embrac[es] the philosophy of the Crunch gym chain — 'No judgments' — when approaching her subject. * * * We see her big-game man-hunting in the context of her poor background * * * 'Marrying for love was not an option [money was],' Ms Hirshey writes. * * * (At 37, Brown managed to find both love and security in the [future] Hollywood producer David Brown [who first became a movie producer in 1972].) We see the daffy, often shameless advice she gave in 'Sex and the Single Girl [published in 1962]' "
(i) Crunch Fitness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunch_Fitness
(was founded in 1989 by former stockbroker Doug Levine)
(ii) daffy (adj; etymology): "CRAZY, FOOLISH"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/daffy

(e) Cosmopolitan magazine's "star turn as a mock issue of The Harvard Lampoon. * * * her legendary cheapness * * *  Brown's single-girl years in Los Angeles, where she went through 19 secretarial jobs and juggled boyfriends like plates 菜盤"
(i) It appeared in Oct _, 1972 issue. Go to images.google.com to find the cover.
(ii) The Harvard Lampoon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harvard_Lampoon
(iii) cheap (adj): "STINGY <my cheap uncle>"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cheap

(f) "in one of her final secretarial jobs, at the advertising agency Foote, Cone & Belding, Brown finally got her big break: Her boss's wife noticed that Brown's 'While You Were Away' memos were written with unusual élan, and suggested that maybe she ought to write for a living. So it came to pass. Her boss made her a copywriter."
(i) copywriter (n): " 'writer of copy for advertisements,' 1911, from copy + writer"
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=copywriter
(ii) copywriting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copywriting
(Copy is a content primarily used for the purpose of advertising or marketing)