``It was a terrific magazine,'' she said, looking back when she surrendered the editorship of the U.S. She said at the outset that her aim was to tell a reader ``how to get everything out of life - the money, recognition, success, men, prestige, authority, dignity - whatever she is looking at through the glass her nose is pressed against.'' Three years later, she was hired by Hearst Magazines to turn around the languishing Cosmopolitan and it became her bully pulpit for the next 32 years. ``Sex and the Single Girl,'' her grab-bag book of advice, opinion, and anecdote on why being single shouldn't mean being sexless, made a celebrity of the 40-year-old advertising copywriter in 1962. She was 90.Ä«rown died Monday at a hospital in New York after a brief hospitalization, Hearst CEO Frank A. Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine who invited millions of women to join the sexual revolution, has died.
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