Sex and the Single Girl and Brown also attempted to have the book censored or banned in the United States as a marketing gimmick, but they were unsuccessful. The book also was endorsed on the jacket by Joan Crawford and Gypsy Rose Lee, and the 2003 edition is endorsed on the back cover by "Sex and the City"'s Kim Cattrall. Following the success of "Sex and the Single Girl", Brown became the editor of "Cosmopolitan" magazine in 1965, and went on to publish several other books which include "Sex and the Office" (1965), "Helen Gurley Brown's Single Girl's Cookbook" (1969), and "Sex and the New
Calvin H. Gurley for public schools if his own son were attending them. Gurley said he would voluntarily take a drug test and challenged Barry to do the same. Gurley said the most serious problem facing the District was that federal authorities had taken control of certain functions of the government of the District of Columbia due to mismanagement, resulting in what Gurley called "the loss of home rule". Gurley said that the District had not improved at all during the previous four years, with the exception of downtown. At a meeting of the District of Columbia Ward 6 Democrats, the group decided