Helen Gurley Brown

Well, we've still got some kismet dates in here, like some, it happened all over again, like it just keeps going.

But August 2nd, 1915, so a year before the shark attacks, less than a year, The New York Times ran an editorial called Let Us Do Justice to the Sharks.

So it read that, "Sharks can properly be called dangerous in this part of the world is apparently untrue." And when I put that quote in my notes, I was like, "I'm gonna struggle with this," and I was like, "No, it's okay, I've read it enough.

I know what it s-," no, I still struggled with it.

Literally they were, it was like a whole editorial about how sharks were not dangerous and any claims to the contrary was false, and it was an article saying we should do right by them.

We should, you know, treat the ocean with respect, that kind of thing.

But that belief was about to be shattered by what happened during 12 days of terror in July 1916.

They said that the fish were also smaller that year.

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I had no idea that Helen Gurley Brown released two albums-

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... with tracks called How to Love a Man If You Aren't Pretty and How to Talk to a Man in Bed.

... and The Cyrkle.

But he had this, and this other identity, this Brute Force identity.

Right, nobody knows what, you know, in this, in this bizarre time of the, this spiritual awakening, nobody knows what's gonna stick, so let's put out a Helen Gurley Brown album, you know?

Yeah.

Sometimes she and Ray fight tooth and nail as to what stays in the column and what goes, what's gotta come out for legal purposes.

Jane's prized possession is a framed freelance piece she wrote for "Cosmo" editor Helen Gurley Brown about outdoor orgasms.

Then there's Mortimer Newworth, the billionaire owner and publisher of the "Daily News." He's a 70-year-old high-profile socialite, owns the paper mainly for reasons of vanity And his liberal political leanings.

The real estate and publishing magnate knows little of his working class readers.