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- NATION, Page 53American NotesSOCIAL ISSUESBehind The Times
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- What's a girl to do when she encounters sexual harassment in
- the office? If she's a Cosmo girl, she apparently should think
- twice before becoming offended. Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime
- editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and tireless doyenne of
- social advice, believes there's still a place for "sexual
- chemistry" in the workplace.
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- Writing in the Wall Street Journal last week, Brown fondly
- recalled working at a Los Angeles radio station during the late
- 1940s and early '50s. Her male co-workers, wrote Brown, played
- a "dandy game called `Scuttle' . . . [they] would select a
- secretary, chase her down the halls . . . catch her and take her
- panties off. Nothing wicked ever happened."
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- According to the author, everyone enjoyed the pursuit and
- "no scuttler was ever reported to the front office. Au
- contraire, the girls wore their prettiest panties to work . . .
- Alas, I was never scuttled." Brown professed shock that modern
- girls would disagree with her notions of what constitutes a
- playful professional pastime.
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