Enter Helen (54 page)

Pageant
, 17, 73

Pahlmann, William, 221

Pakula, Alan, 270

Paramount Pictures, 57

Parents Without Partners, 44, 68

Parker, Judith “Judy,” 254, 256, 257, 278–79

Parker, Suzy, 44

Parsons, Louella, 14

Patton, George S., 56

Peacock, Mary, 327

Peters, Bill, 25

Pettet, Joanna, 242

Peyton Place
(film), 29, 43

Photoplay
, 132, 172, 183

Pidgeon, Walter, 198

Pill, the, 19–20, 149

Pittman, Norma Lou “Lou” (now Honderich), 58,
60
, 67

     
and family background, 167–69, 320, 382

     
Helen's advice and help to, 62, 64–65, 331–32

     
and Helen's burial, 387–88

     
memories of Helen, 59–66, 178, 330–32, 382–84, 386

     
and women's liberation, 330, 332

Playboy
, 128, 201–3, 259

     
audience for, 201–2, 203, 341

     
“The Career Woman” (Wylie), 94–95

     
female version of, 202

     
Helen's interview in, 87–88, 89

     
nude pinups in, 340

Playboy Bunnies, 89–90, 259, 263

Playboy Club, 86–87, 89

Playboy
Philosophy, 114, 201

Pogrebin, Bert, 112

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin,
45

     
How to Make It in a Man's World
, 306–7

     
and
Ms.
, 324, 325, 327, 361

     
and
Valley of the Dolls
, 234, 262

     
and women's liberation, 324, 360–61

     
see also
Cottin, Letty

pop art, 76, 107

Porter, Sylvia, 123

Portnoy's Complaint
(film), 318

Povich, Lynn,
The Good Girls Revolt
, 303

Prashker, Betty, 306

Premarin, 149, 150

Pritchett, Paula, 224

Prohibition, 173

Proskauer (Proctor), Martin, 26

Psychology Today
, 326

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

Pyne, Joe, 115–16

Quant, Mary, 236, 283

Quine, Richard, 121

Rainmaker
(film), 345

Random House, 48

Reader's Digest
Condensed Book Club, 241

Redford, Robert, 341, 349

Redstockings, 300–302, 305, 306

Reed, Rex, 122, 163–65, 262

Reilly, Patrick, 379

Renata [Boeck], 147–48, 368

Revlon, 227, 291

Reynolds, Burt, 339, 341–47

Rheingold Brewing Company, 195, 197

Rivers, Joan, 314, 317

Robbins, Harold, 277

Robles, Richard, 107

Roe v. Wade
, 312, 355

Rogers, Ginger, 176

Rolling Stone
, 253–54, 256

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 386

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 179–80, 186, 189

Root, Lin, 148

Rosenberg, Edgar, 317

Ross, Ruth, 249

Roth, Philip, 318

Roxon, Lillian, 257

Roy, Julie, 356

Rubinstein, Helena, 104

Runner Associates, 204

Russell, Jane, 196

Russell, Rosalind, 95

Russian Tea Room, New York, 318

Samantha (cat), 51, 78,
80

Sandpiper
,
The
(film), 152

San Francisco Chronicle
, 52–53

San Francisco Examiner
, 53

Sassoon, Vidal, 263, 283

Saturday Evening Post
,
The
, 27, 117

Savage City
,
The
(English), 99–100

Scavullo, Francesco, 225–26, 229, 342–43

Schaap, Dick, 161–62

Schandorf, Ruth, 5–6, 9, 29

Schlicht, Paul, 27

Schlicht & Field Company, 27

Schrafft's, New York, 77

Schroeder, Mildred, 53

Seaman, Barbara,
Lovely Me
, 104

Seberg, Jean, 163

Secretary's Day, 68

Secret World of Kids
,
The
(Linkletter), 18

Seventeen
, 126

sex:

     
changing image of, 375

     
future of, 109

     
salability function of, 340

Sex and the Office
(Brown):

     
audience for, 96–97, 117

     
critical reviews of, 113–14

     
ideas in, 112, 155, 206, 212

     
plans for, 69–71

     
promotion of, 112–13, 115–17, 121

     
writing of, 72, 82–86, 94–97, 99, 106

Sex and the Single Girl
(Brown):

     
audience for, 36, 44, 66, 71, 125, 211, 385

     
banning of, 40

     
book tours for, 46, 71, 104

     
critical reviews of, 46, 52–54, 352

     
David's input and support for, 17, 24, 31–32, 33, 36, 38, 44, 50–51, 58, 59, 73, 128

     
editing of, 88

     
follow-up to, 69–71, 94, 135;
see also Sex and the Office

     
forthright style of, 19, 20–21, 36

     
idea for, 17, 31–33, 51, 73

     
influence of, 234, 251

     
jacket design of, 47–48

     
and the media, 17

     
movie adaptation of, 121–22

     
movie rights to, 58–59, 61–62

     
promotion of, 16, 17, 22–24, 34, 39–45, 46–51, 71, 87, 104

     
publication of, 46–48, 381

     
public reaction to, 52–53, 103, 117, 235

     
source materials for, 25–26, 50–51

     
success of, 48, 51–52, 53–54, 71, 84, 125, 212

     
writing of, 161

Sexual Politics
(Millett), 306, 307, 311–12

sexual revolution, 275–77

Shapiro, Samuel O. “Shap,” 211, 212

Shark Tank
(TV), 118

Sheehy, Gail, 246

Sheppard, Eugenia, 224, 255

Shields, Brooke, 385

Shore, Dinah, 341, 345

Show
, 89, 90

Show Business Illustrated
, 128

Shrimpton, Jean, 148

Siegel, Sol, 13

Silver Screen
, 132, 183

Simon & Schuster, 43

Sinatra, Frank, 104, 319

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 215

singles industry, 220–23, 272

Sisco family cemetery, 383, 387

Six Crises
(Nixon), 48

Sixties, 34–35

Skouras, Spyros, 57, 58, 73

Slater, Leonard,
Aly,
209–10

Smith, J. Frederick, 146

Smith, Liz, 213, 386

     
at
Cosmopolitan
, 152–54, 158–59, 162, 163–64, 216, 231, 269–71, 378

     
Natural Blonde
, 153

     
“The Park Avenue Call Girl,” 269–71

Smith College:

     
Helen's endowment to, 384

     
Helen's visit to, 380–81

     
Sophia Smith Collection at, 380

     
survey of, 92

Socialist Workers Party, 315

Sokolsky, Melvin, 222–23, 224–25

Soldan, Michael, 279

Something's Got to Give
(film), 55–56

Song of Solomon, 388–89

Sontag, Susan, 275, 335

Sound of Music
,
The
(film), 131

Spaniard in the Works
,
A
(Lennon), 218

Spectorsky, A. C. “Spec,” 128

Spencer, Vene, 138, 139, 231, 237–41,
238

Spiegel, Sam, 13

Spielberg, Steven, 359

Spock, Benjamin, 94, 151

Stanwyck, Barbara, 213, 274

Statue of Liberty, women's lib takeover of, 310, 315

Steinbeck, John, 27

     
The Grapes of Wrath
, 183

Steinem, Gloria, 262–68,
264
, 380

     
childhood of, 369

     
and “City Politic,” 265

     
and
Cosmopolitan
, 262–63, 265–67, 293, 364–65, 366

     
and
Glamour
, 263–64

     
interview with Helen, 367–73, 381

     
and
Ms.
, 324–25, 327, 334, 336, 353, 355, 365

     
and
New York
, 265, 301, 334

     
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
, 302

     
as Playboy Bunny, 89–90, 263

     
review of
Sex and the Office
, 113–14

     
and
Valley of the Dolls
, 235

     
and women's liberation, 301–2, 311, 313, 335, 336, 357, 359, 365, 366, 370

Steinert, Anne, 53

“Step Into My Parlour” (editorial column), 200–201, 204–5, 206–7, 221, 222, 237, 341, 348

Stewart-Gordon, Faith, 318

Sting
,
The
(film), 349

Strunk, William B. Jr., 216

Stukane, Eileen, 243

Summer of Love, 252

Supervising Helpers in Television, 68–69

Susann, Jacqueline, 103–4, 320

     
Every Night, Josephine
, 104, 106, 218

     
Valley of the Dolls
, 36, 233–35, 242, 262

     
“Zelda Was a Peach,” 218

Sutton, Henry,
The Exhibitionist
, 37

Sweet Smell of Success
(film), 14

Szekely, Susan [Edmiston], 254–56, 277–79, 335

“Nobody Over Thirty,” 252

Talese, Gay, 75, 100

Taylor, Elizabeth, 57, 58, 147, 152–53, 266, 366, 386

Texas State College for Women, 189, 190

That Girl
(TV), 119

This I Believe
(radio), 133

Thom, Mary, 327

Thomas, Clarence, 378

Thomas, Marlo, 119

Thompson, Hunter S., 252

Three Coins in the Fountain
(film), 29

Thunderball
(film), 218

Time,
135, 140, 311, 328, 330

Today
(TV), 23, 68

Tolles, Patricia, 99

Tonight Show
,
The
(TV), 23, 47, 118, 341

Tornabene, Lyn, 158–60

     
conversations with Helen, 8, 159, 200, 237, 322, 382

     
and
Cosmopolitan
, 158–59, 221

     
and David, 246

     
on Helen's self-

     
invention, 161, 382

     
and proposed musical about Helen, 1–3, 195

     
and Thanksgiving gathering, 159–60

Torrance's South Bay Club, California, 220

Turner, Lana, 43, 196

Twain, Mark, 27

20th Century Fox:

     
and
Cleopatra
, 47, 56–58, 73, 131

     
David as story department head, 28–29, 54, 131, 235

     
David fired by, 73, 318–20

     
and
Sound of Music
, 131

“21” Club, New York, 226–28, 293

Twiggy, 148

Ulysses
(Joyce), 56

Urban, Joseph, 137

USO, 250

Vallee, Rudy, 198

Valley of the Dolls
(Susann), 36, 233–35, 242, 262

Valmy, Christine, 291

Van Buren, Abigail:

     
“Dear Abby” column of, 18

     
Dear Teen-Ager
, 18

Vanderbilt, Gloria, 314, 352

Van Doren, Mamie, 108

Verushka, 147

Vietnam, bachelors in, 250–51

Vietnam War, 34, 47, 233, 300

Village Voice
, 52, 301, 302, 352

Visione, Donna, 347

Vogue
, 126, 224, 243, 260, 264

Wagner, Jeanette Sarkisian, 280, 281, 348

Wagner, Robin, 140, 144, 239, 294

Wald, Jerry, 43, 44

Walker, John Brisben, 27

Wallace, Irving, 136

Wall Street Journal
, 378, 379

Walsh, George:

     
and
Cosmopolitan
, 150, 272, 339, 349–50

     
departure of, 360

     
and Helen, 215, 230, 248, 320, 349–50, 360

     
as managing editor, 150, 155, 218, 230, 281, 350, 360

Walters, Barbara, 317, 366, 385, 386

Wanger, Walter, 58

Warhol, Andy, 76, 108

     
POPism
, 107

Warm Springs, Georgia, 189

Warner Bros., 54, 58–59

Washington Post
, 334

Washington Square Methodist Episcopal Church, 300–302

Webster, Guy, 340

Weiler, A. H., 122

Weinberg, Jack, 277

Weinstein, Henry, 56

Welch, Raquel, 258

Welles, Chris, 230–32

Wenner, Jann, 253–54

Wharton, Edith, 27