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",
Helen Agcaoili Summers Brown Helen Agcaoili Summers Brown Helen Agcaoili Summers Brown (May 16, 1915 - January 25, 2011), also known as Auntie Helen, was a Filipino-American teacher and librarian, and the founder of the Pilipino American Reading Room and Library. She was born in Manila to a Filipino mother and an Anglo father, and moved to America after her graduation from Manila Central High School. She then studied at Pasadena Junior College, and later earned a master's degree from University of California, Los Angeles. Subsequently she became a teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District. She opened the Pilipino American Reading Room