Enter Helen (52 page)

     
Helen's first days with, 137–42, 145, 155,
162
, 213

     
Helen's ideas for, 129–31, 150–51, 153, 157, 162, 163, 200–201, 202, 205, 258–60, 261–62, 273–74, 294–98, 354, 371, 379

     
international editions of, 348, 354, 376, 379–80

     
July issue (Helen's first), 142, 144–54, 161, 162, 201, 207–12, 368

     
makeovers in, 288, 289–91

     
and
Ms.
, 325, 328–29, 351–56, 364–65

     
new direction of, 129–31, 139, 150, 151, 157, 162, 202, 208, 209–11, 228

     
nude centerfold in, 339–47

     
“Pussycat” nickname and logo, 156–57, 221

     
rumors at, 138–39, 140–41, 157

     
sales figures for, 209, 211, 230, 307

     
secretaries in, 138, 139, 144, 237–39,
238
, 288, 290–91

     
spoofs of, 336

     
staff changes in, 140–41, 145, 150–51, 155, 158, 241, 242–43, 280–81, 337–38

     
staff meetings and memos in, 244,
244
, 245–48, 271–72, 294–98, 365

     
success of, 209, 230–32

     
That
Cosmopolitan
Girl, 203, 225, 229, 246, 258, 261, 268, 308, 313, 328, 351, 373, 375, 378–79

     
three issues in progress at once, 218

     
and women's liberation, 307, 308, 312–13, 316, 325, 330, 333, 357, 362–63

     
writers for, 152–53, 155, 158, 163, 201, 202, 215, 216, 219, 240, 262–63, 269, 289

Cottin, Letty,
45

     
and Bernard Geis, 17, 18–19

     
and Helen, 21–24, 34, 38, 47, 49, 87

     
as publicist, 16–17, 36–38, 39–45, 112, 118, 234

     
and
Sex and the Office
, 86, 112–13

     
and
Sex and the Single Girl
, 16–24, 36, 39–45, 87, 128

     
see also
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Cousins, Norman, 281

Cowles, Fleur Fenton, 211

Cowles, Gardner “Mike” Jr., 211, 212

Cox, Linda, 207, 295–98, 337–38

Cox Landey & Partners, 375

Crawford, Joan, 39, 44, 46, 132, 274

Creaturo, Barbara, 344

Crook, Barbara Hustedt, 213–14, 242, 248, 261, 291, 297, 357

Curie, Marie, 196

Curtis, Tony, 121, 341

Dahmen, Cathee, 256

Dalí, Salvador, 105, 227

Das Kapital
(Marx), 20

Dating Game
,
The
(ABC-TV), 219

David, Saul, 59, 121

David Brown Associates, 26

Davis, Bette, 27, 274

Day, Doris, 44

Dear Teen-Ager
(Van Buren), 18

Deems, Richard, 121

     
and
Cosmopolitan
, 130, 131, 158, 340, 341

     
and
Eye
, 254, 256, 280

     
and
Femme
, 129

     
and Helen, 130, 135, 214, 280

     
and nude centerfold, 340, 341

Delacorte, George T., 128

Deliverance
(film), 342, 346

Dell'Olio, Anselma, 335

Dell Publishing Company, 128

DeMille, Cecil B., 57–58

Dempsey, Jack, 8, 198

De Santis, Mallen, 345, 366

     
as beauty editor, 227–28, 248, 290–92

     
on creating stories, 243, 248, 272

     
on makeovers, 288, 289, 290–91

Dew, Diana, 256

Dialectic of Sex
,
The
(Firestone), 278

Diary of Anne Frank
,
The
(film), 29

Didion, Joan:

     
“Bosses Make Lousy Lovers,” 115

     
Helen interviewed by, 117

Diggers, 253

DiMaggio, Joe, 56

Doda, Carol, 108–9

“Do Re Mi” (song), 183

Doubleday, 306, 307

Driving Miss Daisy
(film), 388

Drown, Joe, 6

Duke, Patty, 47

Duncan (dog), 13

Dupuy, Frank Jr., 140, 214, 227, 231, 280

Dylan, Bob, 76

Dystel, Oscar, 47

Eastwood, Clint, 341

Edgar, Joanne, 327

Edmiston, Susan Szekely, 252, 254–56, 277–79, 335

Edwards, Vince, 265, 266–67

Eisenhower, Mamie, 97

Elements of Style
(Strunk and White), 216

Emberg, Kelly, 375

English, T. J.,
The Savage City
, 99–100

Enovid, 19

Ephron, Nora, 288–90, 293, 298, 335

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), 303

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 324, 362–64

Erickson, Milton H., 198

Esquire
, 128, 129, 146, 288, 298

Evans, Robert, 147

Every Night, Josephine
(Susann), 104, 106, 218

Exhibitionist
,
The
(Sutton), 37

Eye
, 254–57, 277–82, 283, 335, 348

Fairchild, John, 105, 289

Farnham, Marynia, and Ferdinand Lundberg,
Modern Women: The Lost Sex
, 92

Farrow, Mia, 222

Fasteau, Brenda Feigen, 324–25

Fawcett Publications, 43

Fear of Flying
(Jong), 364

Felker, Clay, 265, 334, 336

Feminine Forever
(Wilson), 148–49

Feminine Mystique
,
The
(Friedan), 90–94, 96, 126, 304

feminism,
see
women's liberation movement

Femme
, 122–30, 201

Ferderber, Skip, 116

Ferrer, Mel, 121–22

Few Good Men
,
A
(film), 388

Fielding, Temple, 236

Finch, Peter, 58

Finkelstein, Nina, 327

Firestein, Chester, 42

Firestone, Shulamith, 306

     
The Dialectic of Sex
, 278

Fisher, Eddie, 57, 147

Fisher, Karen, 297

Fleming, Ian, 74

Fonda, Henry, 121

Fonda, Jane, 270, 366

Fonda, Peter, 163

Foote, Cone & Belding, 14, 17, 25, 30, 64, 96, 132, 195, 204

Ford, Eileen, 148, 217

Ford, Judith Anne, 287

Foss, Lynn, 291

Fox Film Corporation, 57

Francis, Arlene, 239

Frankly Female
(TV proposal), 118–19

French, Marilyn, 296

Friedan, Betty, 216, 232, 380

     
The Feminine Mystique
, 90–94, 96, 126, 304

     
Life So Far
, 89, 91, 309

     
and women's liberation, 309, 310, 313, 315, 324, 333

Friedan, Carl, 91–92, 309

From Russia with Love
(film), 108

Fuller, Bonnie, 379

Gable, Clark, 55

Garland, Judy, 234

gay rights, 316

G.D. Searle and Co., 19

Geis, Bernard “Berney”:

     
and
Femme
, 122, 125, 128, 129

     
and follow-up book (
Sex and the Office
), 69–71, 83, 84, 85–86, 96, 113

     
and Hearst, 121, 129

     
and Helen, 21, 22, 33, 38, 47, 67–68, 72, 83, 88, 121

     
and Letty, 17, 18–19

     
and publicity, 37–38, 40, 71–72, 128

     
publishing house of, 17–19, 39;
see also
Bernard Geis Associates General Motors Building, 137, 313, 357

Generation of Vipers
(Wylie), 95

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(film), 13, 55, 385

George, Iris, 250

Gernreich, Rudi, 108, 236, 287

Gervis, Stephanie (later Harrington), 52

Getty, Jean Paul, 236

Gillespie, Dizzy, 245

Gingold, Judy, 302–3

Ginsberg, Allen, 253

Girls of Beverly Hills
,
The
(Brown) [book proposal], 70

Glamour
:

     
audience of, 126, 132, 259

     
David's contributions to, 26

     
and Equal Rights Amendment, 362

     
Helen's winning contest entry in, 132–34

     
job offer to Helen from, 281

     
Steinem's contributions to, 263–64

Glover, Buddy, 111

Golightly, Holly (fict.), 21, 361

Gone with the Wind
(film), 375

Good Girls Revolt
,
The
(Povich), 303

Good Housekeeping
, 27, 29, 35, 124, 126, 325, 362

Gornick, Vivian, 325

Gould, Elliott, 341

Gould, Robert E., 376–77

Grable, Betty, 5

Graham, Billy, 161

Graham, Katharine, 334

Grant, Bev, 284

Grant, Cary, 226

Grapes of Wrath
,
The
(Steinbeck), 183

Grateful Dead, 252, 253

Great Depression, 137, 152, 172, 178, 191

Greene, Gael, 227, 294

Green Forest, Arkansas, 167,
168
Greenson, Ralph, 56

Gregory (cat), 78,
80

Grossinger's Catskills resort, 44

Groucho and Me
(Marx), 18

Guber, Lee, 317

Guggenheim Museum, New York, 76

Gurley, Cleo (mother),
50
, 320,
321

     
birth and early years of, 169–71

     
death of, 367, 383, 387,
390
depression of, 3, 6, 178, 179

     
Helen criticized by, 187, 188

     
Helen's stories about, 8, 49, 206, 272, 322

     
Helen's visits with, 8, 109–10, 367

     
and Ira's death, 175–77, 178, 182, 192

     
and Leigh, 182–84;
see also
Bryan, Cleo Gurley

     
marriage of Ira and, 170–71

     
as seamstress, 171, 176–77

     
and
Sex and the Single Girl
, 49–50, 52, 66

     
as teacher, 168, 170, 171

     
working to support the family, 7, 192

Gurley, Helen Marie:

     
ad agency jobs of, 9, 14–15, 17, 25, 132, 204

     
ambitions of, 134, 193–94, 204

     
birth and childhood of, 166–77,
174
, 178–84, 322

     
as contest winner, 132–34

     
and David,
see
Brown, David; Brown, Helen Gurley

     
and her father, 173

     
and her father's death, 175, 178, 185

     
letters written by, 186

     
and men, 7–9, 25, 40, 159–60

     
secretarial jobs of, 6–7, 30, 44, 54, 96, 132, 144, 166, 198

     
teen years of, 186–91,
187
,
190
,
193
, 203

     
therapy of, 198–99

     
work habits of, 14–15

Gurley, Ira Marvin (father):

     
death of, 3, 168, 173, 175, 178, 182, 192, 368, 387,
390
education of, 167

     
jobs of, 168, 172

     
marriage of Cleo and, 170–71

     
popularity of, 173

Gurley, Mary Eloine (sister), 64, 132

     
in a wheelchair, 3, 6,
193
,
321

     
birth of, 171

     
childhood of, 170,
174
, 175–77

     
death of, 383, 387,
390

     
Helen's stories about, 8, 206, 322

     
Helen's visits with, 8,
187
, 320–22, 367

     
and her father's death, 175, 183

     
polio of, 3, 7, 15, 168, 185–86, 188, 189, 191, 192

Gurley, Uncle John, 183

Guthrie, Woody, 183

Guy, William Carrington “Bill”:

     
as fiction editor, 145, 150, 151–52, 157–58, 240

     
heart attack of, 240–41

     
and Helen, 157–58, 209

     
and Meade, 155

     
pets of, 222

     
resignation of, 241

Guzzardo, Anthony, 151

Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, 252–54

Hair
(Broadway musical), 253

Hamill, Pete, 255

Hanisch, Carol, 283

     
“The Personal Is Political,” 300

Harlow, Jean, 132

Harper's
, 26, 326

Harper's Bazaar
, 126, 130, 224

Harrington, Stephanie Gervis, 52, 351–53, 355

Harris, Eleanor, “Women Without Men,” 32

Harris, Elizabeth “Betty” Forsling, 326

Harrison, Linda, 319

Harrison, Rex, 58, 164

Hartford, Huntington, 221