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| 1. | Along the Metropolitan Circuit BROOKLYN. Well, you know how Brooklyn is. Trees grow there, and so does A.A., but they don't talk so much about it. We think it bears repeating that A.A. started there, right on Clinton St. in Bill's house. There are still plenty of A.A.'s around who attended their first meeting there. Then Bill and Lois moved and for a long time there were no meetings in Brooklyn. | June 1944 | |
| 2. | Alcoholics Give Famous Producer Moving Experience (by Arthur Hopkins) There are a few unforgettable experiences that take permanent place in memory and become a continuing source of enrichment--the first dollar I was given as a child and which I promptly spent on an ugly hassock, as a present for my mother; the day I left home for preparatory school, accompanied by my undemonstrative and taciturn father, expecting some words of advice, but hearing nothing until my foot was on the car step when he said: "Don't make a damn fool of yourself"; the middle-of-the-night visit when the hospital attendants could not keep him out of my room because he had to see for himself that I was alive; the day when as a cub reporter in. Cleveland I ... | August 1944 | |
| 3. | Along the Metropolitan Circuit BROOKLYN BRIEFS. For the summer months, we are holding open meetings on Friday at 8:30 P.M., in the air-cooled Grand Salon of the Hotel St. George, Henry and Clark Streets, Brooklyn. An elevator runs from the Clark Street Station of the 7th Avenue, I.R.T. subway into the lobby of the hotel. Any alcoholic who desires information concerning our closed meetings or other information about our activities can contact us at: G.P.O., Box 91, Brooklyn, N. Y. | August 1944 | |
| 4. | Philip Wylie Jabs a Little Needle Into Complacency (by Philip Wylie) An editor of The Grapevine called on me and asked for a piece. He asked because I'd recently reviewed a book about a drunk--Charles Jackson's The Lost Weekend. He thought that what I'd said in the review showed I had an interest in alcoholics. I have. The editor didn't know that I am one. | September 1944 | |
| 5. | A. A.s Country-wide News Circuit To sum up the symposium on alcoholism recently conducted in Cleveland by The Research Council on Problems of Alcohol, science seems to be standing on the threshold of the alcohol problem, and the "area of agreement" on what is known is small indeed when compared to the area of agreement on what is not known. Dr. Abraham Myerson observed: "We are not failing to treat the alcoholic as he should be treated because we do not have time, nor because there aren't enough psychiatrists, but because we don't know how." A second doctor remarked that there is still a slight moral stigma attached to drinking and society doesn't want the alcoholic treated as a sick man, it wants him ... | February 1945 | |
| 6. | A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit There've been lots of radio broadcasts in all parts of the country publicizing A.A., educationally speaking. But February 6th of this year was, for Manhattan A.A.s at least, an outstanding date in radio history. On that day Station WMCA, the first of the city's networks to mention A.A. in one of its regular entertainment features, discussed the alcoholic problem and A.A. openly, in one of the "soap-operas." The drunken heroine of the story, sorely in need of help to patch up her emotionally ragged home, was informed of A.A. by her doctor and advised to try it. She did; she got sober--and of course she lived happily ever after. | March 1945 | |
| 7. | Jack Alexander Of Saturday Evening Post Fame Thought A.A.s Were Pulling His Leg (by Jack Alexander) Pennsylvania -- Ordinarily, diabetes isn't rated as one of the hazards of reporting, but the Alcoholics Anonymous article in the Saturday Evening Post came close to costing me my liver, and maybe A.A. neophytes ought to be told this when they are handed copies of the article to read. It might impress them. In the course of my fact gathering, I drank enough Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, ginger ale, Moxie and Sweetie to float the Saratoga. Then there was the thickly frosted cake so beloved of A.A. gatherings, and the heavily sweetened coffee, and the candy. Nobody can tell me that alcoholism isn't due solely to an abnormal craving for sugar, not even a learned psychiatrist. Otherwise the A.A. assignment was a pleasure. | May 1945 | |
| 8. | A.A. Inspires Formation of the Seekers, Prisoners' Rehabilitation Group In the formation of a unique club, The Seekers, conceived and developed by inmates of San Quentin Prison on San Francisco Bay, Alcoholics Anonymous is the inspiration for a moving story. | August 1945 | |
| 9. | Once an Alcoholic, Always -- (by Dick B.) A year ago I was a hopeless alcoholic. I tried to stop drinking, but the harder I tried the more I drank. I drank to get drunk. I drank to stay sober. And I couldn't do either. | December 1945 | |
| 10. | A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit A three-year-old dream has come true at last--with the official housewarming of the Miami Group's new club rooms at 23 North West South River Drive. The club, overlooking the Miami River, is equipped with a bar--where hot coffee and soft drinks are on tap at all times. | January 1946 | |
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