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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. | Two Yale Savants Stress Alcoholism As True Disease (by H. W. Haggard and E. M. Jellinek) Connecticut -- At the launching of The Grapevine, we wish to express our heartiest congratulations and best wishes for the success of this new publication. The invitation to contribute a note on the Yale Plan Clinics to the first issue of your Journal, confirms our belief in the close relation between the interests of Alcoholics Anonymous and the broad studies we have undertaken on all aspects of alcoholism. | June 1944 | |
| 3. | Central Office Notes Jan. 7, 1944 Shop--Pearl Harbor Dear Central Office: | July 1944 | |
| 4. | Research Council The Research Council on Problems of Alcohol held an Evening Institute on "The Treatment and Prevention of Alcoholism" on June 20th. Many A.A.s were present, some attending Bill's talk "The A.A. Approach to the Problem of Alcoholism" at 5 P.M., and a good number listening to Dr. Harry Tiebout's "Psychotherapy of the Non-Psychotic Alcoholic" at 6 P.M. Dr. Tiebout, as most Metropolitan A.A.s know, uses much that he says he learned from A.A. in his treatment, and he spoke along lines familiar to us. | July 1944 | |
| 5. | Seminar on Alcohol The 1944 session of Yale University's School of Alcohol Studies will open on July 7th and continue through August 4th. The object of these summer sessions is to make the findings of scientific research on all phases of alcohol available for actual use by communities all over the country. Civic activities for the care and rehabilitation of alcoholics have been almost non-existent in the past, and this is largely due to lack of knowledge. | July 1944 | |
| 6. | 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 | |
| 7. | Bill's Comments on Wylie Ideas, Hunches (by Bill W.) Philip Wylie's piece in this issue of The Grapevine will endear the man to every A.A. And why? Because, of course, he's so very alcoholic! Neither can anyone miss the author's generous and self-sacrificing spirit. Forgetting his own worldly importance, he snaps his fingers at what the public may think; he discards his reputation in order to share with us his character. A traveller who has felt his own way out of the night, he tells how he discovers haven. We could ask no better spirit of anyone. Mr. Wylie can be a member of A.A. the very day he says so! | September 1944 | |
| 8. | Time on Your Hands? In discussing hobbies with some cronies recently, it transpired that those who, in one opinion, are the steadiest and most integrated members confessed that they had no time or desire for any hobby other than A.A. We are all aware that A.A. is a way of life or a design for living, but considering it from the viewpoint of being a hobby has presented food for thought. The idea certainly lifts the 12th step out of the duty or obligation category and imbues it with a much-to-be-desired light touch. It enables us to pursue it, not as an unpleasant dose of medicine which is part of our cure, but as one of life's soul-satisfying pleasures. Newcomers, members of new ... | September 1944 | |
| 9. | Central Office Notes (by Bill W.) Somebody once said, "As much as you may grow, as many recoveries as there may be, I think the eventual by-products of A.A. will be greater than A.A. itself." | October 1944 | |
| 10. | Committee for Education on Alcoholism Historic Event, Says Dwight Anderson (by Dwight Anderson) Those who read this issue of The Grapevine are privileged to be present at what may very well prove to be an historic event. The birth of the National Committee for Education on Alcoholism, first publicly announced in this issue, means far more than the mere name would imply. It is the beginning of a new public health movement. It is the first step toward getting the alcoholic out of the jail and into the hospital; toward making it possible for the medical man and the psychiatrist, the social worker and the lay therapist, to pool their skills with Alcoholics Anonymous in modifying the ravages of an illness to which society has been indifferent almost until this very moment. | October 1944 | |
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