Harper’s Bazaar, 126, 130, 224
Harrington, Stephanie Gervis, 52, 351–53, 355
Harris, Eleanor, “Women Without Men,” 32
Harris, Elizabeth “Betty” Forsling, 326
Harrison, Linda, 319
Harrison, Rex, 58, 164
Hartford, Huntington, 221
Hartogs, Renatus, 356–58
Harvard Lampoon, 336–37
Having It All (Brown), 166, 206, 367, 372–73
Hawk, Howard, 6
Hawk, Slim, 6
Hayworth, Rita, 210
Hearst, Joanne, 281
Hearst, William Randolph:
and Cosmopolitan, 129–30, 138, 208
David’s work for, 27, 28, 29
empire of, 137
and Femme, 129–30
Hearst Communications, Inc., 376, 384–85
Hearst Corporation, 137, 207, 248, 298, 356
Hearst Foundation, 365
Hearst Magazines, 121, 136, 139, 201, 211, 214–15, 231, 280–82, 304, 340, 388
Hearst Tower, 136–37, 377
Hedley, Pamela, 29
Hefner, Hugh, 89, 114, 128, 201–3, 339
Helen (proposed musical), 1–3, 195
Heller, Joseph, 121
Hemingway, Ernest, 27
Hentoff, Nat, 245
Hepburn, Audrey, 16, 264
Hepburn, Katharine, 386
Hershey, Lenore, 306
Hesse, Paul, 195–96
Hewitt, Heather, 270
Hill, George Roy, 349
Hillis, Marjorie, Live Alone and Like It, 34
hippies, 252–54, 257
Hitler, Adolf, 26
Hoffert, Emily, 99–100, 107
Hoffman, Betty Hannah, 140, 142, 145
Hoffman, Dustin, 341
Holker, Hal, 188
Hopper, Hedda, 57
hormone therapy, 148–50, 207, 208
Houston Chronicle, 53
Howard, Jane, 248
Howell, Marion “Mario” Ingersoll, 92
How to Make It in a Man’s World (Pogrebin), 306–7
How to Marry a Millionaire (film), 5, 55
How to Marry a Millionaire (Lilly), 146
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Broadway musical), 59
Huerta, Dolores, 264
Hustedt [Crook], Barbara “Bobbie,” 213–14, 242, 248, 261, 291, 297, 357
I’m Wild Again (Brown), 185, 194, 381, 387
In Our Time (Brownmiller), 301
International Magazine Building, 137
Jaffe, Rona:
The Best of Everything, 43, 77, 82, 219
as Cosmo contributing editor, 219
Mr. Right Is Dead, 219
James, Henry, 234
Jaws (film), 359–60, 388
Jax, 146, 162
Jefferson Airplane, 252
Jessup, Elizabeth, 179–82, 187, 190–94
Johnson, Lyndon B., 111, 233
Jong, Erica, 363–64, 381
Fear of Flying, 364
Joplin, Janis, 257
Josephine (dog), 103–4
Joslin, Rev. Roger, 388–89
Joyce, James, Ulysses, 56
Junior Catholic Woman’s Club, 52
J. Walter Thompson agency, 25
Kafka, Franz, 322
Kali (Hindu goddess), 336
Kasper, Mary, 253
Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School, 314
Keller, Helen, 47
Kellogg, Mary Alice, 345
Kelly, Charlotte, 123
Kelly, Gene, 138
Kennedy, Caroline, 35
Kennedy, Florynce “Flo,” 284, 313
Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier [Onassis], 97, 105–6, 293
Kennedy, John F., 34–35, 47, 97, 106, 111, 147–48
Kennedy, Robert F., 271
Kenyon & Eckhardt, 9, 17, 30–31, 41, 72
Khan, Prince Aly, 210
KHJ Los Angeles, 198, 378
Kids Say the Darndest Things! (Linkletter), 18
King, Billie Jean, 335
King, Harry, 375
King, Larry, 121
King, Rev. Martin Luther Jr., 98, 107, 271
Kinsey Report, 108
Kirsch, Robert, 46, 53
Kissinger, Henry A., 351, 366
Kissinger, Nancy Maginnes, 351
Klemesrud, Judy, 275–76
Klute, 270
Koedt, Anne “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm,” 278
Komisar, Lucy, 310
Koop, C. Everett, 377
Koppel, Ted, 377
Kroll, Lucy, 118
Kupcinet, Irv “Kup,” 46
La Barre, Harriet, 215
departure of, 280
as fashion editor, 146, 150, 151, 222
as travel editor, 243, 272
Ladies’ Home Journal, 32, 126, 133, 304–6, 307, 312, 325, 361, 362
Lady Chatterly’s Lover (Lawrence), 20
Lale, Newton, 169
Landey, Martin H., 375
Lange, Hope, 44
Lange, Jim, 219
Langella, Frank, 341
La Sala, Anthony C., 151, 217
Late Show, The (Brown), 381
Lauder, Estée, 373
Lawrence, D. H., Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 20
Lawson, Donna [Wolff], 257
Leary, Timothy, 253, 283
LeClair, Linda, 275–77, 278
Lee, Gypsy Rose, 39
Lee, Pinky, 180
LeGacy, Liberty, 63, 76
Lehman, Ernest, 14, 15, 26
Leigh, Vivien, 375
Lennon, John, 253, 283, 325
A Spaniard in the Works, 218
Les Girls (film), 138
Let Me Entertain You (D. Brown), 11, 28, 56, 142, 317, 318, 359
Levine, Suzanne, 351
Liberty, 5, 27, 127–28
Life, 147, 211, 230, 231, 234, 277
Life So Far (Friedan), 89, 91, 309
Lilith (film), 163, 164
Lilly, Doris, How to Marry a Millionaire, 146
Lincoln, Abraham, 98
Lindley, Helen, 19
Lindsay, John V., 310, 313
Linkletter, Art:
Kids Say the Darndest Things!, 18
The Secret World of Kids, 18
Linotype machines, 75
Little Rock, Arkansas, 179–82, 183, 185–86
Little Rock public library, 40
Live Alone and Like It (Hillis), 34
Loeb & Loeb, 6
Lombard, Carole, 132, 176
Long John Nebel (radio), 117
Look, 32, 211, 316, 327
Los Angeles, for the young, 105
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 57
Los Angeles Times, 48, 51, 53
Los Angeles Times Syndicate, 72
Lovely Me (Seaman), 104
Lowman, Charles LeRoy, 186
Luce, Henry, 211
Lundberg, Ferdinand, 92
“M” (Helen’s lover), 7–8
Maas, Jane, 101
Macfadden-Bartell, 128
MacLaine, Shirley, 217
Mademoiselle, 126, 224, 260
Madonna, 386
Maharaj Ji, Guru, 337–38
Mailer, Norman, 242
Mamoulian, Rouben, 58
Mankiewicz, Joseph, 58
Mansfield, Irving, 234
Manton, Ruth, 130–31
March on Washington (1963), 98, 100
Marie Claire, 379
Martin, Dean, 55
Marx, Groucho, Groucho and Me, 18
Marx, Harpo, 37, 256
Marx, Karl, Das Kapital, 20
Matthews, Freed, 181–82
Max Factor products, 30, 40–42, 123
Mayes, Herbert R., 27, 28, 47, 135, 215
MCA/Universal, 349
McCabe, David, 260
McCall’s, 92, 93, 281, 316, 325, 326, 327
McCarthy, Mary, 77
McGovern, George, 265, 355
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p; McQueen, Steve, 239
McSorley’s Old Ale House, New York, 310
McWhirter, William A., 277
Meade, Walter/Walker, 155–58
as articles editor, 155, 156
at BBDO, 155–56
and Bill Guy, 155
and Cosmopolitan, 155, 156, 209, 246, 360
as managing editor, 360
memories of Helen, 143, 156–58, 195, 207, 209, 213, 246, 274, 313, 320, 322, 348, 380
and Reader’s Digest, 241
Meehan, Thomas, 220, 221
Melcher, Terry, 44
men:
misogyny of, 94–95
as oppressors, 302, 304
society controlled by, 311
and women, see women
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 13
Miami Undercover (TV), 121
Mike Wallace Show, The (TV), 68
Miller, Arthur, 56
Miller, John R., 280–82, 340, 341
Millett, Kate, 284, 313
Sexual Politics, 306, 307, 311–12
Miracle Worker, The (drama), 47
Misfits, The (film), 55
Miss America Pageant, 283–87
Miss Black America pageant, 285
Mr. Right Is Dead (Jaffe), 219
Mitchell, Laurence, 379, 384
Modern Screen, 152
Modern Women: The Lost Sex (Farnham and Lundberg), 92
MOM (Men Our Masters), 316
Monroe, Marilyn, 13, 47, 55–56, 67, 201
Montero, Anne Mather, 92
Moreau, Jeanne, 164
Morgan, Robin, 283–84
Movie Mirror, 183
Ms.:
audience of, 353
and Carbine, 316, 324, 326–29, 362, 364
and Cosmopolitan, 325, 328–29, 351–56, 364–65
editorial content of, 326, 328, 335–36, 353–54, 355
and Felker, 334, 336
financial backing for, 333–34
and Letty, 324, 325, 327, 361
and New York, 327, 334–36
startup of, 324–29, 330, 333–36
and Steinem, 324–25, 327, 334, 336, 353, 355, 365
success of, 336
Ms. (title), 327
Ms. Foundation for Women, 365
Munro, Gordon, 265–68
Murrow, Edward R., 133
Myles, Patricia, 385
Myra Breckenridge (film), 318
“Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm, The” (Koedt), 278
Namath, Joe, 341
National Abortion Rights Action League, 355
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), 112
National Geographic, 344
National Organization for Women (NOW), 305, 309–10, 313–14
National Women’s Political Caucus, 324–25
National Women’s Strike Coalition, 310–11
Natural Blonde (Smith), 153
Neale, Mrs., 13, 17
Neel, Alice, 311
Nessim, Barbara, 263
Neubardt, Selig, 312
New American Library, 74, 128
Newman, Paul, 304, 341, 349
Newsweek, 135, 144, 302–4, 328
New York:
and Helen, 150, 227, 317, 348
and Ms., 327, 334–36
and Steinem, 265, 301, 334
and World Journal Tribune, 254
New York City:
Barbizon Hotel for Women in, 220
Biltmore Hotel in, 314
Browns’ move to, 74, 75–81
career girls murdered in, 99–103
Fashion Week in, 387
feminist marches in, 313–16 “Girl Ghetto” in, 220
Helen’s fascination with, 104–5
Helen’s notes about, 82–86
McSorley’s Old Ale House in, 310
newspaper strike in, 75–76
Schrafft’s in, 77
“21” Club in, 226–28, 293
World’s Fair (1964), 109–11
New York Herald Tribune, 113, 161, 224
New York Journal-American, 53
New York Post, 255, 289
New York Public Library, 316
New York Radical Feminists, 305
New York Radical Women, 278, 283, 305
New York Review of Books, 76
New York State, abortion law in, 333
New York Times, 47, 48, 50, 54, 252, 264, 275, 352
Nichols, Mike, 165
“Nicky” (faux call girl), 269–71
Nightline (ABC TV), 377
Nin, Anaïs, 335
Nixon, Pat, 326
Nixon, Richard M., 97, 299
Six Crises, 48
North by Northwest (film), 14
Norton, Eleanor Holmes, 303, 314
Now Generation, 255
Nyman, Kecia, 225–26
Oates, Joyce Carol, 240
O’Brien, Edna, August Is a Wicked Month, 218
Ochs, Marie Catherine, 89
O’Connell, John “Jack,” 129
Odlum, Floyd B., 26
Ogilvy & Mather, 101
O’Hara, Kelli, 385
One Million Years B.C. (film), 258
Ono, Yoko, 278, 325
O’Reilly, Jane, 335–36
Orentreich, Norman, 159
Orr, Mary, “The Wisdom of Eve,” 27
Ortho-Novum, 19–20
Orwell, George, 114
Osage, Arkansas, 169, 183, 194, 383
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (Steinem), 302
Outrageous Opinions (TV), 235, 242
Packwood, Bob, 378
Pageant, 17, 73
Pahlmann, William, 221
Pakula, Alan, 270
Paramount Pictures, 57
Parents Without Partners, 44, 68
Parker, Judith “Judy,” 254, 256, 257, 278–79
Parker, Suzy, 44
Parsons, Louella, 14
Patton, George S., 56
Peacock, Mary, 327
Peters, Bill, 25
Pettet, Joanna, 242
Peyton Place (film), 29, 43
Photoplay, 132, 172, 183
Pidgeon, Walter, 198
Pill, the, 19–20, 149
Pittman, Norma Lou “Lou” (now Honderich), 58, 60, 67
and family background, 167–69, 320, 382
Helen’s advice and help to, 62, 64–65, 331–32
and Helen’s burial, 387–88
memories of Helen, 59–66, 178, 330–32, 382–84, 386
and women’s liberation, 330, 332
Playboy, 128, 201–3, 259
audience for, 201–2, 203, 341
“The Career Woman” (Wylie), 94–95
female version of, 202
Helen’s interview in, 87–88, 89
nude pinups in, 340
Playboy Bunnies, 89–90, 259, 263
Playboy Club, 86–87, 89
Playboy Philosophy, 114, 201
Pogrebin, Bert, 112
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin, 45
How to Make It in a Man’s World, 306–7
and Ms., 324, 325, 327, 361
and Valley of the Dolls, 234, 262
and women’s liberation, 324, 360–61
see also Cottin, Letty
pop art, 76, 107
Porter, Sylvia, 123
Portnoy’s Complaint (film), 318
Povich, Lynn, The Good Girls Revolt, 303
Prashker, Betty, 306
Premarin, 149, 150
Pritchett, Paula, 224
Prohibition, 173
Proskauer (Proctor), Martin, 26
Psychology Today, 326
“Pussycat” (nickname and logo), 156–57, 221
Pyne, Joe, 115–16
Quant, Mary, 236, 283
Quine, Richard, 121
Rainmaker (film), 345
Random House, 48
Reader’s Digest Condensed Book Club, 241
Redford, Robert, 341, 349
Redstockings, 300–302, 3
05, 306
Reed, Rex, 122, 163–65, 262
Reilly, Patrick, 379
Renata [Boeck], 147–48, 368
Revlon, 227, 291
Reynolds, Burt, 339, 341–47
Rheingold Brewing Company, 195, 197
Rivers, Joan, 314, 317
Robbins, Harold, 277
Robles, Richard, 107
Roe v. Wade, 312, 355
Rogers, Ginger, 176
Rolling Stone, 253–54, 256
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 386
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 179–80, 186, 189
Root, Lin, 148
Rosenberg, Edgar, 317
Ross, Ruth, 249
Roth, Philip, 318
Roxon, Lillian, 257
Roy, Julie, 356
Rubinstein, Helena, 104
Runner Associates, 204
Russell, Jane, 196
Russell, Rosalind, 95
Russian Tea Room, New York, 318
Samantha (cat), 51, 78, 80
Sandpiper, The (film), 152
San Francisco Chronicle, 52–53
San Francisco Examiner, 53
Sassoon, Vidal, 263, 283
Saturday Evening Post, The, 27, 117
Savage City, The (English), 99–100
Scavullo, Francesco, 225–26, 229, 342–43
Schaap, Dick, 161–62
Schandorf, Ruth, 5–6, 9, 29
Schlicht, Paul, 27
Schlicht & Field Company, 27
Schrafft’s, New York, 77
Schroeder, Mildred, 53
Seaman, Barbara, Lovely Me, 104
Seberg, Jean, 163
Secretary’s Day, 68
Secret World of Kids, The (Linkletter), 18
Seventeen, 126
sex:
changing image of, 375
future of, 109
salability function of, 340
Sex and the Office (Brown):
audience for, 96–97, 117
critical reviews of, 113–14
ideas in, 112, 155, 206, 212
plans for, 69–71
promotion of, 112–13, 115–17, 121
writing of, 72, 82–86, 94–97, 99, 106
Sex and the Single Girl (Brown):
audience for, 36, 44, 66, 71, 125, 211, 385
banning of, 40
book tours for, 46, 71, 104
critical reviews of, 46, 52–54, 352
David’s input and support for, 17, 24, 31–32, 33, 36, 38, 44, 50–51, 58, 59, 73, 128
editing of, 88
follow-up to, 69–71, 94, 135; see also Sex and the Office
forthright style of, 19, 20–21, 36
idea for, 17, 31–33, 51, 73
influence of, 234, 251
jacket design of, 47–48
and the media, 17
movie adaptation of, 121–22
movie rights to, 58–59, 61–62
promotion of, 16, 17, 22–24, 34, 39–45, 46–51, 71, 87, 104
publication of, 46–48, 381
public reaction to, 52–53, 103, 117, 235
source materials for, 25–26, 50–51
success of, 48, 51–52, 53–54, 71, 84, 125, 212
writing of, 161
Sexual Politics (Millett), 306, 307, 311–12
sexual revolution, 275–77
Shapiro, Samuel O. “Shap,” 211, 212
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