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Italics in amber. (how one female writer could no longer write the articles Cosmopolitan magazine and editor Helen Gurley Brown wanted) (Column)

From: National Review  |  Date: 5/24/1993  |  Author: King, Florence

I WATCHED Helen Gurley Brown on television the other night. If that sentence sounds oddly like "I said goodbye to Mr. Chips the night before he died," it's because I wrote for Cosmopolitan two decades ago.

Helen was plugging her new book, The Late Show: A Semiwild but Practical Survival Plan for Women over Fifty, a vade-mecum on how to canoodle without a libido and why you should never, never stop doing it even though you no longer want to. "If you're not having sex you're ...

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