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| 1. | Editorial: (by Bill W.) In the book Alcoholics Anonymous there is a chapter called "A Vision for You". Wandering through it recently, my eye was caught by this startling paragraph written a short five years ago. "Someday we hope that every alcoholic who journeys will find a Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous at his destination. To some extent this is already true. Some of us are salesmen and go about. Little clusters of twos and threes and fives of us have sprung up in other communities through contact with our two large centers-----" Rubbing my eyes I looked again. A lump came into my throat. "Only five years," I thought. "Then but two large centers--little clusters of twos and threes--travelers who hoped one day ... | June 1944 | |
| 2. | The Pleasures of Reading Intellectual stimulus, philosophical fortification and wholesome distraction will be found in a collection of three books, superficially diverse but having a common denominator, published in a compact volume as part of The Modern Library under the title of The Consolation of Philosophy. The first book which bears the title of the volume, was written by Boethius, a Roman office-holder of the fourth century and philosopher by avocation. His discourses are agreeably set forth in the form of a dialogue with Lady Philosophy. The second book is The Imitation (or the following) of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis, technically a man of the cloister but soon adopted by the world as a meditative poet and mystical psychologist. No greater inspiration ... | June 1944 | |
| 3. | Time on Your Hands? This column will deal specifically with one or two "time fillers" in each issue, but we want to cover the kind of thing you are most interested in. We hope, therefore, that you will send in requests for information and that you will also send facts about your own interesting hobbies and occupations, be they intellectual, practical or just plain fun. | June 1944 | |
| 4. | Along the Metropolitan Circuit BROOKLYN. The Brooklyn Group took over the meeting on Sunday, June 11th, at Montclair, New Jersey, and about twenty loyal Brooklyn rooters went along in support of their speakers. The open meetings of the Brooklyn Group continue to be held, at 8:30 p.m., on Friday evenings, at the Hotel St. George and the attendance is rapidly increasing. Members from other groups are cordially invited. | July 1944 | |
| 5. | Central Office Notes Jan. 7, 1944 Shop--Pearl Harbor Dear Central Office: | July 1944 | |
| 6. | Mail Call for All A. A.s in the Armed Forces "Dear Bud: I feel like a rat not having answered your letter long ago; I'm afraid I'm not a very good correspondent. At least I can now tell you where I am--Maui is the spot, the Hawaiian Islands the locale. This must be almost anti-climactic for you to hear, as I'm sure by this time you have pictured me anywhere but here--probably down under, in a jungle surrounded by Japs. However, I'm in no hurry; I'll probably get there soon enough. | July 1944 | |
| 7. | Additional Overseas Notes (by John) From one of our two-man Group on a South Pacific Island (see the last issue): | August 1944 | |
| 8. | 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 | |
| 9. | Five Alcoholics Looking for the Perfect Pitch More and more musicians and show people are getting into A.A. In our New York group, we have a young orchestra. Rudy is the greatest French horn player in the country. Koussevitzky said that his solo in Tschaikovsky's Fifth has never been surpassed. But Rudy went on benders, dragging his French horn with him to bars, always hanging on to it. Friends dragged Rudy out of a hotel hallway one night whither he had escaped stark naked, to 'surpass himself' in a horn solo. | August 1944 | |
| 10. | Time on Your Hands So many of us, as we emerge from the abyss of alcoholism, are aware of barren, wasted years and missed opportunities. As our minds open little by little and become de-fogged, we are often beset by the grim gremlins of regret when we realize that the bar room and cocktail corner did not give us intellectual and practical food and drink even though, at times, we felt ourselves to be brilliant and sophisticated members of the intelligentsia. It is, therefore, comforting to discover that it is not too late and that New York City and its environs offer the finest adult educational programs to be found anywhere in the country. Our latest find, THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH, ... | August 1944 | |
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