“The Classiest of Courtesans”

Aspasia, eat your heart out. Charlotte Allen awards the palm to Helen Gurley Brown.

No, I am not that interested in the woman, but Allen’s portrait of Brown at The Weekly Standard provides a corrective of sorts to the Florence King one I linked to below, by emphasizing the gap between Brown and just about anyone who called themselves a feminist.

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