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| 1. | Conference on Alcoholism On April 19th, a one-day conference on "Alcoholism, Prevention & Cure" was held in Lansing, Michigan, at Michigan State College. It was sponsored by the Michigan Temperance Foundation (!) and Yale University School of Alcoholic Studies, and the last speech of the day was on Alcoholics Anonymous. The speaker was a doctor from Detroit, a member of the Detroit group. We are told he did a swell job, and that the conference was followed by an A.A. banquet, at which some 75 A.A.s and their wives, from 8 different Michigan towns, AND Chicago, were present. That, of course turned into a regular A.A. meeting. These state-wide get-togethers seem to be gathering in frequency. The Public Health Commissioner of the ... | June 1944 | |
| 2. | The Pleasures of Reading Advice direct from hell. Human-relation pointers given by Screwtape, a senior devil, to a favored nephew operating on earth are amusingly set forth by C. S. Lewis in "Screwtape Letters." (Macmillan Co. 1.50). Readers will laugh at the shrewd portrayal of soft spots, alibis and rationalizations suggested by Screwtape in the battle between His Father, Satan, and The Enemy, God. They will appreciate the clever inverse presentation of time-proved Christian philosophy and counsel. Mr. Lewis, a Fellow of Magdalene College, is one of England's popular contemporary writers and radio speakers. "The Case for Christianity" (1.00) and "Christian Behavior" (1.00) offer straight treatment of the very real, every-day value of right living. All three volumes are well worth-while and easy ... | July 1944 | |
| 3. | Mail Call for All A.A.s in the Armed Forces We received a letter from Bill X., who has been in Northern Ireland, which starts innocently enough with a pat on the back for the Editors and winds up with the germ of a great idea for a new column for the paper: | September 1944 | |
| 4. | Points of View (by Elliot B.) Virginia -- Dear Grapevine: The new Grapevine has just come and I am very much impressed by it--a credit to the grandest organization in the world. I wonder whether the anonymity end could be overcome in one thing, and that is a Personal Column. The thing that keeps most alumni periodicals going is the interest all seem to have in the others in the same college, and I believe that nothing could have more interest for those who are away from home--New York in my case--than news of all the rest. I know that I would eat up a column of news about all of you up there and feel that there must be many more who would do the same. ... | October 1944 | |
| 5. | A.A.s Country-wide News Circuit The husky Braves pitcher, Nate Andrews, while at training camp last spring, went on a terrific tear that involved hidden bottles, nerve pills, and frantic long-distance telephone calls. The whole of it ended in columns of bad publicity. He was rescued by the BOSTON A.A.s, and though there was little confidence that the good-natured, popular Nate would ever fully recover from his ordeal, he did. With a sixth-place team, Nate won 16, lost 15 games. He was the best pitcher on the club. An enthusiastic member of the Boston A.A. group, he spoke often at meetings. The publicity given his dive overboard and subsequent rescue brought into the group one hundred and fifty new men during the summer. Retaining ... | January 1945 | |
| 6. | A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit The role which A.A. can take in curbing absenteeism in industrial plants due to excessive drinking was recently outlined before the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Industrial Personnel Club. Stanley Davis of Cincinnati, analyst of the Ohio Personnel Testing Laboratories, displayed personnel tests showing the qualifications of a normal worker and the marked deviation by alcoholics from the norm. He also showed how alcoholics "come back," even passing the norm, after joining A.A. The program was arranged by a prominent businessman, who is a member of the non-alcoholic advisory board for the Chattanooga A.A. group. . . . Can anything be done for the valuable employee whose drinking is out of control? To some employers this is still a baffling question. The ... | April 1945 | |
| 7. | A.A'.s Country-wide News Circuit Over Station WWJ --The Detroit News, a series of A.A. stories is being voiced from Detroit, little dramas written from the real life stories of A.A. members. The program is scheduled for each Saturday at 7 p.m. The series began as an experiment several weeks ago with the dramas programmed for every other Saturday at 11:15 p.m. WWJ has now moved the program forward to its present early evening spot, every Saturday. . . . The March of Time recently broadcast dramatized excerpts from Eliot Taintor's book, September Remember. . . As further evidence that A.A. is becoming increasingly known in the educational field, Willard Waller, Professor of Sociology at Barnard, the women's college of Columbia University, recently gave ... | June 1945 | |
| 8. | The Pleasures of Reading (by Grace O.) This book, written by the head professor of psychology at Union College, Albany, deals with one of the most important projects of our day--the problem of character education. | June 1945 | |
| 9. | A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit Dr. C. Dudley Saul, head physician of the medical staff of St. Luke's Hospital, Philadelphia, who pioneered in winning medical recognition for A.A., recently told about 65 law enforcement and welfare officials, clergymen and doctors, at a meeting of A.A. in Burlington, Vt., that close cooperation of the medical profession, clergy, laity and A.A. are needed today to inform the public of the true nature of "Public Enemy No. 4 --alcoholism." | September 1945 | |
| 10. | II (by R. S.) New Jersey -- In Persons and Places, the first volume of the autobiography of George Santayana, famous philosopher and author of The Last Puritan, Santayana describes a classmate of his at Harvard in the '80s of whom he was particularly fond. To the cognoscenti (us) this pen portait speaks for itself: | September 1945 | |
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