February 18, 1922

Helen Gurley Brown was born in Green Forest (Carroll County). She was the author of Sex and the Single Girl (1962), which had sold 150,000 hardcover copies by April 1963, and became editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine in 1965. Soon after she signed on as editor, circulation of the magazine rose to three million.

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