Dear Pussycat: Mash Notes and Missives from the Desk of Cosmopolitan's Legendary Editor

Dear Pussycat: Mash Notes and Missives from the Desk of Cosmopolitan's Legendary Editor by Brown, Helen Gurley. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780312317577.

Dear Pussycat: Some of us find it easier to say in a letter whatever it is we want to express -- love, rage, outrage, affection, resentment, enthusiasm, a request to do a chore -- than we do person to person or even phone to phone. Ive been writing letters, somewhat successfully I think, since I was eight years old. I got President Franklin Roosevelt to write to my wheelchair-bound (from polio) sister by dropping him a line at the White House. Some of my letters dont quite make it, of course -- trying to get New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger to fire his vicious play reviewer Frank Rich who tore apart my husbands perfectly fine play, A Few Good Men. He wouldnt do it -- no recourse but to write the reviewer himself, "Dear Frank, you bastard! etc." Ive thanked designer Emilio Pucci for turning small bust and big hips into goddess stature with whammo fabric and genius engineering, kept a few beloved employees from jumping ship or into the river with careful flattery, consoled the grieving. Wouldnt you like to see a little collection of my best, meanest and happiest notes that reflect a pretty fascinating New York life, a career they dont make many like, love and friendship with junior high school buddies and a few razzle-dazzle celebrities? Okay...if you like good old-fashioned staying-in-touch by correspondence, here they are! Helen Gurley Brown