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Today in History: February 18


SURRENDER OF CONFEDERATE TROOPS IN 1865

1478 George, the Duke of Clarence, who had opposed his brother Edward IV, is murdered in the Tower of London.
1688 Quakers in Germantown, Pa. adopt the fist formal antislavery resolution in America.
1813 Czar Alexander enters Warsaw at the head of his Army.
1861 Victor Emmanuel II becomes the first King of Italy.
1861 Jefferson F. Davis is inaugurated as the Confederacy's provisional president at a ceremony held in Montgomery, Ala.
1865 Union troops force the Confederates to abandon Fort Anderson, N.C.
1878 The bitter and bloody Lincoln County War begins with the murder of Billy the Kid's mentor, Englishman rancher John Tunstall.
1885 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, is published in New York.
1907 600,000 tons of grain are sent to Russia to relieve the famine there.
1920 Vuillemin and Chalus complete their first flight over the Sahara Desert.
1932 Manchurian independence is formally declared.
1935 Rome reports sending troops to Italian Somalia.
1939 The Golden Gate Exposition opens in San Francisco.
1943 German General Erwin Rommel takes three towns in Tunisia, North Africa.
1944 The U.S. Army and Marines invade Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.
1945 U.S. Marines storm ashore at Iwo Jima.
1954 East and West Berlin drop thousands of propaganda leaflets on each other after the end of a month long truce.
1962 Robert F. Kennedy says that U.S. troops will stay in Vietnam until Communism is defeated.
1964 The United States cuts military aid to five nations in reprisal for having trade relations with Cuba.
1967 The National Art Gallery in Washington agrees to buy a Da Vinci for a record $5 million.
1968 Three U.S. pilots that were held by the Vietnamese arrive in Washington.
1972 The California Supreme Court voids the death penalty.
1974 Randolph Hearst is to give $2 million in free food for the poor in order to open talks for his daughter Patty.
1982 Mexico devalues the peso by 30 percent to fight an economic slide.
Born on February 18

1516 Queen Mary I, also known as Bloody Mary for her persecution of Protestants.
1795 George Peabody, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
1848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassware artist and designer.
1859 Shalom Aleichem, Yiddish author.
1862 Charles M. Schwab, "Boy Wonder" of the steel industry. President of both U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel.
1892 Wendell Wilke, Presidential candidate against President Franklin Roosevelt.
1909 Wallace Stegner, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (Angle of Repose).
1922 Helen Gurley Brown, editor of Cosmopolitan magazine.
1929 Len Deighton, English spy writer (The Ipcress File).
1931 Toni Morrison, Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author (The Bluest Eye, Beloved).
1934 Audre Lord, poet.

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Tonight Show w. Sub host David Brenner and guest Helen Gurley Brown of Cosmopolitan Magazine Pt 1







Helen Gurley Brown



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Helen Gurley Brown in 1964
Born February 18, 1922 (1922-02-18) (age 88)
Green Forest, Arkansas[1]
Occupation International Editor, Cosmopolitan
Title International Editor, Cosmopolitan; Former editor-in-chief, U.S. Cosmopolitan
Spouse(s) David Brown
Ethnicity English-American
Notable credit(s) Editor-in-chief, Cosmopolitan

Helen Gurley Brown (born February 18, 1922 in Green Forest, Arkansas), is an author, publisher, and businesswoman. She was editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years.[2]

Personal life and careerBrown was born to parents Cleo and Ira Marvin Gurley.[3] Her mother was born in Alpena, Arkansas and died in 1980.[3][4] Her father was once appointed Commissioner of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.[5] The family moved to Little Rock, Arkansas after Ira won an election to the Arkansas state legislature.[4] He died in an elevator accident on June 18, 1932.[6] In 1937, Brown, her sister Mary, and their mother moved to Los Angeles, California.[7] A few months after moving, Mary contracted polio.[7] While in California, Brown attended John H. Francis Polytechnic High School.[8]

After graduation, the family moved to Warm Springs, Georgia.[9] Brown attended one semester at Texas State College for Women and then moved back to California to attend Woodbury Business College.[9] She graduated in 1941.[10] In 1947, Cleo and Mary moved to Osage, Arkansas while Brown stayed in Los Angeles.[11]

After working at the William Morris Agency, Music Corporation of America, and Jaffe talent agencies she went to work for Foote, Cone & Belding advertising agency as a secretary.[12] Her employer recognized her writing skills and moved her to the copywriting department where she advanced rapidly to become one of the nation's highest paid ad copywriters in the early 1960s. In 1959 she married David Brown, who would become the producer of Jaws, The Sting, Cocoon, Driving Miss Daisy, and other motion pictures.

In 1962, at the age of 40, she authored the bestselling book Sex and the Single Girl.[13] In 1965, she became editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and reversed the fortunes of the failing magazine. During the decade of the 1960s she was an outspoken advocate of women's sexual freedom and sought to provide them with role-models and a guide in her magazine. She claimed that women could have it all, "love, sex, and money", a view that even preceding feminists such as Betty Friedan and Germaine Greer did not support at all and has been met with notable opposition by advocates of grass-roots devotion of women to family and marriage.[14] Due to her advocacy, glamorous, fashion-focused women were sometimes called "Cosmo Girls". Her work played a part in what is often called the sexual revolution.

In 1997, Brown was ousted from her role as the US editor of Cosmopolitan[15] and was replaced by Bonnie Fuller. When she left, Cosmopolitan ranked sixth at the newsstand, and for the 16th straight year, ranked first in bookstores on college campuses.[15] However, she stayed on at Hearst publishing and remains the international editor for all 59 international editions of Cosmo.[15]

In September, 2008, she was named the 13th most powerful American over the age of 80 by Slate magazine.[16]

After more than 50 years of marriage, her husband David Brown died at age 93 on February 1, 2010.[17][18]



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