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
What’s My Line? (TV), 239
White, E. B., 216
Whitmore, George Jr., 107
Whitney, Ruth, 362
Williams, Sybil, 57
Willis, Ellen, 325
Wilson, Lisa, 255
Wilson, Robert A., Feminine Forever, 148–49
Wizard of Oz, The (film), 153
Wolfe, Linda, 363
Wolfe, Tom, 75
Wolff, Donna Lawson, 279
“Woman Alone” (syndicated newspaper column), 59, 72–73, 79, 101–2, 103, 106, 201, 235
women:
abortions of, 36, 87–88, 123, 284, 300–302, 309, 312, 333, 335, 355, 363
advertising to, 328–29, 334
and aging, 373
ambitions of, 204, 228
beauty pageants, 283–87
and birth control, 20, 87, 88, 284, 363
blacks compared to, 113
as Bunnies, 90
call girls, 84
and careers, 29, 91, 94–97, 102, 210, 308
in consciousness-raising circles, 284, 302, 332, 355
dependency of, 91–92
double standards for, 32, 276, 277, 299, 308, 344
and ERA, 324, 362–64
as executives, 112, 113
extra, 34, 36
and femininity, 90
and feminism, see women’s liberation movement
forced sterilization of, 309
as “girls,” 375
/> housewives, 335–36
husbands needed by, 35
jobs for, 35–36
and lesbianism, 32
living with boyfriends, 275–77
in low-paying jobs, 303, 308, 370
loyal readers, 353–54
market research on, 228, 288
and marriage, 90–91, 93–94, 223
and men’s misogyny, 94–95
nymphomaniacs, 88
Ozarks type, 170
and the Pill, 19–20, 149
pregnancies of, 36, 44, 91, 301
realizing their potential, 329, 330, 355, 370
selling to, 42
and sex, 33, 86, 88, 310–11, 361
sexual harassment of, 378
and sexual revolution, 335
single, 32, 35–36, 42, 44, 49, 53, 68, 100–103, 108, 122, 125, 200, 219–23, 228
and suffragist movement, 366
and travel, 220–21, 272
as victims, 369–70
working-class, 126, 132, 291
women’s liberation movement, 300–307
and abortion, 284, 300–302, 309, 312, 335, 363
and consciousness raising, 284, 302, 332, 355
and EEOC, 303
and ERA, 324, 362–64
and Helen, 287, 307, 308, 310–12, 316, 317, 332, 333, 359, 362, 363–66, 370
Ladies’ Home Journal targeted by, 304–6, 307
on men as oppressors, 302, 304
and Miss America pageant, 283–87
and Ms., 325–29, 333–36, 361
national strike by, 309–16
National Women’s Political Caucus, 324–25
New York Radical Women, 278, 283, 305
as radical feminist movement, 278
Redstockings, 300–302, 305, 306
women’s rights, 277, 278, 309, 370
Women’s Wear Daily (WWD), 105, 255, 278, 289, 293, 297, 298, 339
Wood, Natalie, 122
Woodbury Business College, 191–92
Woodward, Joanne, 304
World Journal Tribune, 254
World’s Fair, Chicago (1933), 109, 110, 182
World’s Fair, New York (1964), 109–11
Wosk, Miriam, 336
Writer, The, 163
Writer’s Digest, 151
Writers Guild, 215–16
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 93
Wylie, Janice, 99–100, 107
Wylie, Max, 99–100
Career Girl, Watch Your Step!, 98, 102–3
Wylie, Philip, 99
Generation of Vipers, 95
“The Career Woman,” 94–95
Yellow Rolls-Royce, The (film), 164
Young, Gene, 111
YWCA, 44, 102
Zanuck, Darryl F., 28, 73, 131, 236, 318–19
Zanuck, Richard, 131, 318–20, 348–49, 359–60
Zanuck/Brown Company, 348–49, 359–60
Ziegfeld, Florenz Jr., 137
Ziegfeld Follies, 137
Ziffren, Paul, 6, 7
Zolotow, Maurice, 47
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BROOKE HAUSER often covers women in media and entertainment. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Allure, Parade, and Premiere, among other publications. As a journalist, she has written about a wide range of subjects, including female corrections officers, Baptist preachers, Chinese beauty queens, and a former secretary of state. Hauser’s first book, about young newcomers to America, The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens, was a winner of the American Library Association’s 2012 Alex Award. Originally from Miami, Florida, Hauser recently moved to western Massachusetts, where she lives with her family and occasionally teaches nonfiction writing at Smith College.
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Title: Enter Helen : the invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the rise of the modern single woman / Brooke Hauser.
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