Helen Gurley Brown: the Global Legacy Of ‘Cosmo’
Helen Gurley Brown (Photo: Library of Congress/Wiki Media)
There’s a well-known story about Helen Gurley Brown, the founding editor of Cosmopolitan magazine who died Monday at the age of 90.
She kept a pillow in her office that said, “Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere.”
You could also say that about the magazine she made into an international brand.
Cosmopolitan now has 64 editions around the world.
Journalist Edith Zimmerman recently wrote a feature in The New York Times Magazine called: “99 Ways To Be Naughty in Kazakhstan: How Cosmo Conquered the World.”
She tells anchor Marco Werman the foreign editions of Cosmo she has read are remarkably true to the original.
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