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Enter Helen

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by Brooke Hauser


  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

  Hartogs, Renatus, 356–58

  Harvard Lampoon, 336–37

  Having It All (Brown), 166, 206, 367, 372–73

  Hawk, Howard, 6

  Hawk, Slim, 6

  Hayworth, Rita, 210

  Hearst, Joanne, 281

  Hearst, William Randolph:

  and Cosmopolitan, 129–30, 138, 208

  David’s work for, 27, 28, 29

  empire of, 137

  and Femme, 129–30

  Hearst Communications, Inc., 376, 384–85

  Hearst Corporation, 137, 207, 248, 298, 356

  Hearst Foundation, 365

  Hearst Magazines, 121, 136, 139, 201, 211, 214–15, 231, 280–82, 304, 340, 388

  Hearst Tower, 136–37, 377

  Hedley, Pamela, 29

  Hefner, Hugh, 89, 114, 128, 201–3, 339

  Helen (proposed musical), 1–3, 195

  Heller, Joseph, 121

  Hemingway, Ernest, 27

  Hentoff, Nat, 245

  Hepburn, Audrey, 16, 264

  Hepburn, Katharine, 386

  Hershey, Lenore, 306

  Hesse, Paul, 195–96

  Hewitt, Heather, 270

  Hill, George Roy, 349

  Hillis, Marjorie, Live Alone and Like It, 34

  hippies, 252–54, 257

  Hitler, Adolf, 26

  Hoffert, Emily, 99–100, 107

  Hoffman, Betty Hannah, 140, 142, 145

  Hoffman, Dustin, 341

  Holker, Hal, 188

  Hopper, Hedda, 57

  hormone therapy, 148–50, 207, 208

  Houston Chronicle, 53

  Howard, Jane, 248

  Howell, Marion “Mario” Ingersoll, 92

  How to Make It in a Man’s World (Pogrebin), 306–7

  How to Marry a Millionaire (film), 5, 55

  How to Marry a Millionaire (Lilly), 146

  How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Broadway musical), 59

  Huerta, Dolores, 264

  Hustedt [Crook], Barbara “Bobbie,” 213–14, 242, 248, 261, 291, 297, 357

  I’m Wild Again (Brown), 185, 194, 381, 387

  In Our Time (Brownmiller), 301

  International Magazine Building, 137

  Jaffe, Rona:

  The Best of Everything, 43, 77, 82, 219

  as Cosmo contributing editor, 219

  Mr. Right Is Dead, 219

  James, Henry, 234

  Jaws (film), 359–60, 388

  Jax, 146, 162

  Jefferson Airplane, 252

  Jessup, Elizabeth, 179–82, 187, 190–94

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 111, 233

  Jong, Erica, 363–64, 381

  Fear of Flying, 364

  Joplin, Janis, 257

  Josephine (dog), 103–4

  Joslin, Rev. Roger, 388–89

  Joyce, James, Ulysses, 56

  Junior Catholic Woman’s Club, 52

  J. Walter Thompson agency, 25

  Kafka, Franz, 322

  Kali (Hindu goddess), 336

  Kasper, Mary, 253

  Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School, 314

  Keller, Helen, 47

  Kellogg, Mary Alice, 345

  Kelly, Charlotte, 123

  Kelly, Gene, 138

  Kennedy, Caroline, 35

  Kennedy, Florynce “Flo,” 284, 313

  Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier [Onassis], 97, 105–6, 293

  Kennedy, John F., 34–35, 47, 97, 106, 111, 147–48

  Kennedy, Robert F., 271

  Kenyon & Eckhardt, 9, 17, 30–31, 41, 72

  Khan, Prince Aly, 210

  KHJ Los Angeles, 198, 378

  Kids Say the Darndest Things! (Linkletter), 18

  King, Billie Jean, 335

  King, Harry, 375

  King, Larry, 121

  King, Rev. Martin Luther Jr., 98, 107, 271

  Kinsey Report, 108

  Kirsch, Robert, 46, 53

  Kissinger, Henry A., 351, 366

  Kissinger, Nancy Maginnes, 351

  Klemesrud, Judy, 275–76

  Klute, 270

  Koedt, Anne “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm,” 278

  Komisar, Lucy, 310

  Koop, C. Everett, 377

  Koppel, Ted, 377

  Kroll, Lucy, 118

  Kupcinet, Irv “Kup,” 46

  La Barre, Harriet, 215

  departure of, 280

  as fashion editor, 146, 150, 151, 222

  as travel editor, 243, 272

  Ladies’ Home Journal, 32, 126, 133, 304–6, 307, 312, 325, 361, 362

  Lady Chatterly’s Lover (Lawrence), 20

  Lale, Newton, 169

  Landey, Martin H., 375

  Lange, Hope, 44

  Lange, Jim, 219

  Langella, Frank, 341

  La Sala, Anthony C., 151, 217

  Late Show, The (Brown), 381

  Lauder, Estée, 373

  Lawrence, D. H., Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 20

  Lawson, Donna [Wolff], 257

  Leary, Timothy, 253, 283

  LeClair, Linda, 275–77, 278

  Lee, Gypsy Rose, 39

  Lee, Pinky, 180

  LeGacy, Liberty, 63, 76

  Lehman, Ernest, 14, 15, 26

  Leigh, Vivien, 375

  Lennon, John, 253, 283, 325

  A Spaniard in the Works, 218

  Les Girls (film), 138

  Let Me Entertain You (D. Brown), 11, 28, 56, 142, 317, 318, 359

  Levine, Suzanne, 351

  Liberty, 5, 27, 127–28

  Life, 147, 211, 230, 231, 234, 277

  Life So Far (Friedan), 89, 91, 309

  Lilith (film), 163, 164

  Lilly, Doris, How to Marry a Millionaire, 146

  Lincoln, Abraham, 98

  Lindley, Helen, 19

  Lindsay, John V., 310, 313

  Linkletter, Art:

  Kids Say the Darndest Things!, 18

  The Secret World of Kids, 18

  Linotype machines, 75

  Little Rock, Arkansas, 179–82, 183, 185–86

  Little Rock public library, 40

  Live Alone and Like It (Hillis), 34

  Loeb & Loeb, 6

  Lombard, Carole, 132, 176

  Long John Nebel (radio), 117

  Look, 32, 211, 316, 327

  Los Angeles, for the young, 105

  Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 57

  Los Angeles Times, 48, 51, 53

  Los Angeles Times Syndicate, 72

  Lovely Me (Seaman), 104

  Lowman, Charles LeRoy, 186

  Luce, Henry, 211

  Lundberg, Ferdinand, 92

  “M” (Helen’s lover), 7–8

  Maas, Jane, 101

  Macfadden-Bartell, 128

  MacLaine, Shirley, 217

  Mademoiselle, 126, 224, 260

  Madonna, 386

  Maharaj Ji, Guru, 337–38

  Mailer, Norman, 242

  Mamoulian, Rouben, 58

  Mankiewicz, Joseph, 58

  Mansfield, Irving, 234

  Manton, Ruth, 130–31

  March on Washington (1963), 98, 100

  Marie Claire, 379

  Martin, Dean, 55

  Marx, Groucho, Groucho and Me, 18

  Marx, Harpo, 37, 256

  Marx, Karl, Das Kapital, 20

  Matthews, Freed, 181–82

  Max Factor products, 30, 40–42, 123

  Mayes, Herbert R., 27, 28, 47, 135, 215

  MCA/Universal, 349

  McCabe, David, 260

  McCall’s, 92, 93, 281, 316, 325, 326, 327

  McCarthy, Mary, 77

  McGovern, George, 265, 355

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p; McQueen, Steve, 239

  McSorley’s Old Ale House, New York, 310

  McWhirter, William A., 277

  Meade, Walter/Walker, 155–58

  as articles editor, 155, 156

  at BBDO, 155–56

  and Bill Guy, 155

  and Cosmopolitan, 155, 156, 209, 246, 360

  as managing editor, 360

  memories of Helen, 143, 156–58, 195, 207, 209, 213, 246, 274, 313, 320, 322, 348, 380

  and Reader’s Digest, 241

  Meehan, Thomas, 220, 221

  Melcher, Terry, 44

  men:

  misogyny of, 94–95

  as oppressors, 302, 304

  society controlled by, 311

  and women, see women

  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 13

  Miami Undercover (TV), 121

  Mike Wallace Show, The (TV), 68

  Miller, Arthur, 56

  Miller, John R., 280–82, 340, 341

  Millett, Kate, 284, 313

  Sexual Politics, 306, 307, 311–12

  Miracle Worker, The (drama), 47

  Misfits, The (film), 55

  Miss America Pageant, 283–87

  Miss Black America pageant, 285

  Mr. Right Is Dead (Jaffe), 219

  Mitchell, Laurence, 379, 384

  Modern Screen, 152

  Modern Women: The Lost Sex (Farnham and Lundberg), 92

  MOM (Men Our Masters), 316

  Monroe, Marilyn, 13, 47, 55–56, 67, 201

  Montero, Anne Mather, 92

  Moreau, Jeanne, 164

  Morgan, Robin, 283–84

  Movie Mirror, 183

  Ms.:

  audience of, 353

  and Carbine, 316, 324, 326–29, 362, 364

  and Cosmopolitan, 325, 328–29, 351–56, 364–65

  editorial content of, 326, 328, 335–36, 353–54, 355

  and Felker, 334, 336

  financial backing for, 333–34

  and Letty, 324, 325, 327, 361

  and New York, 327, 334–36

  startup of, 324–29, 330, 333–36

  and Steinem, 324–25, 327, 334, 336, 353, 355, 365

  success of, 336

  Ms. (title), 327

  Ms. Foundation for Women, 365

  Munro, Gordon, 265–68

  Murrow, Edward R., 133

  Myles, Patricia, 385

  Myra Breckenridge (film), 318

  “Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm, The” (Koedt), 278

  Namath, Joe, 341

  National Abortion Rights Action League, 355

  National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), 112

  National Geographic, 344

  National Organization for Women (NOW), 305, 309–10, 313–14

  National Women’s Political Caucus, 324–25

  National Women’s Strike Coalition, 310–11

  Natural Blonde (Smith), 153

  Neale, Mrs., 13, 17

  Neel, Alice, 311

  Nessim, Barbara, 263

  Neubardt, Selig, 312

  New American Library, 74, 128

  Newman, Paul, 304, 341, 349

  Newsweek, 135, 144, 302–4, 328

  New York:

  and Helen, 150, 227, 317, 348

  and Ms., 327, 334–36

  and Steinem, 265, 301, 334

  and World Journal Tribune, 254

  New York City:

  Barbizon Hotel for Women in, 220

  Biltmore Hotel in, 314

  Browns’ move to, 74, 75–81

  career girls murdered in, 99–103

  Fashion Week in, 387

  feminist marches in, 313–16 “Girl Ghetto” in, 220

  Helen’s fascination with, 104–5

  Helen’s notes about, 82–86

  McSorley’s Old Ale House in, 310

  newspaper strike in, 75–76

  Schrafft’s in, 77

  “21” Club in, 226–28, 293

  World’s Fair (1964), 109–11

  New York Herald Tribune, 113, 161, 224

  New York Journal-American, 53

  New York Post, 255, 289

  New York Public Library, 316

  New York Radical Feminists, 305

  New York Radical Women, 278, 283, 305

  New York Review of Books, 76

  New York State, abortion law in, 333

  New York Times, 47, 48, 50, 54, 252, 264, 275, 352

  Nichols, Mike, 165

  “Nicky” (faux call girl), 269–71

  Nightline (ABC TV), 377

  Nin, Anaïs, 335

  Nixon, Pat, 326

  Nixon, Richard M., 97, 299

  Six Crises, 48

  North by Northwest (film), 14

  Norton, Eleanor Holmes, 303, 314

  Now Generation, 255

  Nyman, Kecia, 225–26

  Oates, Joyce Carol, 240

  O’Brien, Edna, August Is a Wicked Month, 218

  Ochs, Marie Catherine, 89

  O’Connell, John “Jack,” 129

  Odlum, Floyd B., 26

  Ogilvy & Mather, 101

  O’Hara, Kelli, 385

  One Million Years B.C. (film), 258

  Ono, Yoko, 278, 325

  O’Reilly, Jane, 335–36

  Orentreich, Norman, 159

  Orr, Mary, “The Wisdom of Eve,” 27

  Ortho-Novum, 19–20

  Orwell, George, 114

  Osage, Arkansas, 169, 183, 194, 383

  Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (Steinem), 302

  Outrageous Opinions (TV), 235, 242

  Packwood, Bob, 378

  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, 3
05, 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

 

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