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- <text id=91TT2508>
- <title>
- Nov. 11, 1991: American Notes:Social Issues
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Nov. 11, 1991 Somebody's Watching
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 53
- American Notes
- SOCIAL ISSUES
- Behind The Times
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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