David Brown 1916-2010

David Brown, who died Monday at age 93, may be best remembered in the magazine world as the husband of the legendary Helen Gurley Brown and the writer of many of Cosmopolitan's provocative coverlines during her tenure there. But before Brown became a successful movie producer, he was himself a magazine editor, serving as editor-in-chief of Liberty magazine shortly after World War II. In his 1990 memoir, "Let Me Entertain You," Brown remarked that, "There is nothing wrong with the magazine, book, record, television, or motion picture businesses that imagination and appealing to basic human interest cannot remedy. There are a lot of people out there willing and able to buy, but you mustn't bore them."