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Back in Scandinavia. Operating on a typically tight Hearst budget, Mrs. Brown has an editorial staff of 21. But they all throw themselves into her crusade. "I never have to compromise in my work," says Art Director Lene Bernbom, 24, a Danish blonde who joined the magazine in 1966. "Suddenly," she adds, "I'm like back in Scandinavia. Suddenly, I'm working for Mrs. Sex."
Cosmopolitan is frequently criticized for portraying as unreal a sex-charged world as Playboy, if a somewhat less affluent one. As in Playboy, children are not pictured; they interfere with the free, untrammeled sex life. "I'm a materialist," says Editor Brown, "and it's a materialistic world. Nobody is keeping a woman from doing everything she wants to do but herself." Certainly not Helen Gurley Brown.