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| 1. | Marty Interviewed on Committee (by Felicia G.) A new Committee has been formed. It's to be nationwide in scope. Although it's not an A.A. baby, it's to have a lot to do with A.A. The name of it is The National Committee for Education on Alcoholism, and its executive director is Marty Mann, one of our leading A.A.s in the New York Group, and one of our finest speakers. Marty plans to go all over the country lecturing on alcoholism, and more than this--she hopes to help get local committees started wherever she goes. These local committees in turn will educate their communities on the problem of the alcoholic, and teach the whole public, throughout the country, what we in A.A. already know, That alcoholism is ... | October 1944 | |
| 2. | 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 | |
| 3. | A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit It may be that women fear their anonymity will not be respected, and therefore they are more reluctant than men to come into A.A. Society is more scathing in its condemnation of a woman alcoholic. No doubt about that. Nor is there any doubt that, whatever the reason, there are proportionately few women in A.A. A coast-to-coast review brings out this salient fact: it isn't until about four years after the inception of a group that women begin arriving in any numbers, and even then the process is slow and painful for quite a while. | May 1945 | |
| 4. | Man's Triumvirate (by John J.) O. -- Symbolizing the unity of A.A., over 2,500 members of the fellowship and their friends from 36 states, two Canadian provinces, and Mexico gathered in Cleveland's Music Hall on June 10 to commemorate and pay tribute to Bill W. and Dr. Bob on the 10th anniversary of the founding of the movement. | July 1945 | |
| 5. | The Grapevine: (by Bill W.) The Grapevine has just completed the first year of its existence. Scores of enthusiastic letters are coming in. They are written from all parts of the United States and some from foreign countries. They congratulate The Grapevine staff and ask them to keep up their good work. | July 1945 | |
| 6. | Editorial Squabbles (by Bill W.) During its brief few years in the public eye, Alcoholics Anonymous has received hundreds of thousands of words of newspaper and magazine publicity. These channels have been augmented recently by radio commentators and, here and there, A.A.-sponsored radio broadcasts. Hardly a word of criticism or ridicule has ever been uttered about us. While our publicity has sometimes lacked a certain dignity we can scarcely complain of that. After all, drinking is not such a dignified business! | August 1945 | |
| 7. | Flexibility Is Vital (by Bill W.) Does Alcoholics Anonymous have a public relations policy? Is it adequate to meet our present and future needs? | September 1945 | |
| 8. | The Book Is Born (by Bill W.) In recent Grapevine articles attention has been drawn to the fact that A.A. is still in the process of forming a public relations policy, that failure to crystallize a sound policy could seriously cripple us. | October 1945 | |
| 9. | Mail Call for All A.A.s at Home Or Abroad (by J.D.) Would it be possible, without causing you too much difficulty in your mailing arrangements, to insert in each issue being mailed to A.A. regular subscribers, a little "key" slip to the initials which appear after your articles? | November 1945 | |
| 10. | 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 | |
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