Helen Gurley Brown editor of "Cosmopolitan" and replaced by Bonnie Fuller. When she left, "Cosmopolitan" ranked sixth at the newsstand and, for the 16th straight year, ranked first in bookstores on college campuses. However, she stayed on at Hearst publishing and remained the international editor for all 59 international editions of "Cosmo" until her death on August 13, 2012. In September 2008, Brown was named the 13th-most-powerful American over the age of 80 by "Slate" magazine. In 1965, Gurley took over as editor-in-chief of "Cosmopolitan" magazine and was in that position until 1997. Brown revamped the magazine by taking it from a women's
Helen Gilmore (1928). Helen left the theater in 1933. She became affiliated with Liberty Magazine. In 1938 she was appointed editor of Movie Mirror Magazine, a Macfadden publication. She became editor of Photoplay in 1941 after the periodical merged with "Movie Mirror". Her career as an editor lasted approximately a decade. In private life Helen was Mrs. Richard Florac. Helen Gilmore died at Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, of acute leukemia, in 1947. She was 47 years old. Helen Gilmore Helen Gilmore (1900 – October 8, 1947) was an American actress of the stage and silent motion pictures from Chicago, Illinois. She