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Veteran Cosmo Editor Helen Brown Dies at 90

NEW YORK: -- Helen Gurley Brown, the legendary editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine has died in New York at the age of 90, the Western media said citing magazine publisher Hearst.

She died on Monday shortly after being admitted at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

Brown edited the magazine targeting young single women for 32 years, from 1965 to 1996.

She was hired by Hearst to turn financially-troubled Cosmopolitan into money-making powerhouse three years after writing her 1962 bestseller "Sex and the Single Girl," which encouraged women to be self-efficient and independent, and advised them on how to better enjoy their jobs, relationships and bodies.

When Brown took over, the magazine had a circulation of less than 800,000. By the time of her retirement in 1997 [more...]

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