Helen Gurley Brown's influence: All the single ladies

Peggy Olson and Joan Holloway, “Mad Men”: Helen Gurley Brown's own life story closely parallels that of Peggy at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce — she began her career as an executive secretary at ad agency Foote Cone & Belding, and worked her way up4:50 p.m. | Updated Helen Gurley Brown, the former editor of Cosmopolitan who transformed the magazine in the 1960s into a source of sexual empowerment for women, died Monday morning. A spokesman for the Hearst Corporation, which publishesHelen Gurley Brown, or H.G.B. as she's known in the Cosmo universe, is the patron saint of

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