It was primarily a fiction magazine until Helen Gurley Brown became editor in 1965
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of ... And before Helen Gurley Brown came to reinvent Cosmopolitan, the ... editor 
and Mademoiselle's fiction editor from 1965 to 1976, Before this, ... Sassy, In 
Style, Jane and Marie Claire, and it became harder for editors to,... [DOC] [TLE] Journal | Kentucky for Kentucky | Kentucky Kicks Ass | Page 58 [PAR] Jun 11, 2014 ... Helen Gurley Brown, author of Sex and the Single Girl (1962) and editor-in-chief 
of Cosmopolitan magazine from 1965, had at ...