Liz Smith (journalist) Smith later moved to New York City, where she worked as a typist, proofreader, and reporter before she broke into the media world as a news producer for Mike Wallace at CBS Radio. She spent five years as a news producer for NBC-TV. She also worked for Allen Funt on "Candid Camera". In the late 1950s, Smith worked as a ghostwriter for the popular "Cholly Knickerbocker" gossip column that appeared in the Hearst newspapers. After leaving that column in the early 1960s she went to work for Helen Gurley Brown as the entertainment editor for the American version of "Cosmopolitan",
Gurley Precision Instruments trackers, theodolites, angle dividers, optical positioning systems, and various other precision guidance devices for guided missiles and for space launch vehicles. Teledyne Corporation acquired W. & L. E. Gurley in 1968. In 1993 Gurley was sold again and became Gurley Precision Instruments. The W. & L. E. Gurley Building in Troy was named a National Historic Landmark in 1983. GPI has been responsible for the creation of two commonly used units of measure. These units were so named due to the association with the devices used for their measurement. The Gurley second or Gurley unit is a unit that describes