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| 1. | AA Around the World THE FIFTH ANNUAL EUROPEAN ROUNDUP held in Wiesbaden, Germany over the Labor Day weekend, was attended by AAs and Al-Anon members from England, Holland, Denmark, Ireland, and Belgium, including Americans from AA groups in several European countries. For the first time, an account of Alcoholics Anonymous appeared in German in a German newspaper which reported the Roundup. "Stars and Stripes," published for U.S. servicemen abroad, also carried a complete story on the meetings. An eye-witness account follows from a member in France. | ||
| 2. | Bucolic Notes. . . . "Sister Francis'" friends will be glad to know that High Watch Farm, Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut, near Kent, which many A.A.'s have visited and where some found their first contact with us, is open again. Two of our Manhattan group members are going up the first of June to run it during the summer months. | June 1944 | |
| 3. | 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 | |
| 4. | Central Office Notes Jan. 7, 1944 Shop--Pearl Harbor Dear Central Office: | July 1944 | |
| 5. | Charming Is the Word for Alcoholics (by Fulton Oursler) Down at the very bottom of the social scale of A.A. society are the pariahs, the untouchables and the outcasts, all under-privileged and all known by one excoriating epithet--relatives. | July 1944 | |
| 6. | Mail Call for All A. A.s in the Armed Forces In our first issue we told of the near reunion on a South Pacific island of two veteran A.A. members, one a Navy, the other an Army, lieutenant. Our Navy friend now writes--"Have been having a few A.A. reunions out here on my own. Finally ran into John N., who has returned to this isle after an absence of several months. We see each other frequently and reminisce about the real old days. In addition to Johnny, I had a reunion with the master of a Liberty ship which came in here a short while ago--he was a member of the 'Frisco group and out on the ship we just left the South Pacific and were right back in ... | July 1944 | |
| 7. | Points of View (by An anonymous wife) Dear Grapevine: Those who think a wife's troubles are over when her husband joins A.A., just don't know! As an alcoholic's wife, I'd like to tell you. My husband, for instance, still stays out until all hours. True, he's holding another alcoholic's head instead of a bottle--but he still neglects his family even though the bills are paid on the first of the month. He still has his ups and downs and fits of depression, even though they don't last as long and he now recognizes them for what they are worth. In short, our life together didn't automatically smooth out into a placid lily pond just because he sobered up. Not all at once. Where once our troubles ... | July 1944 | |
| 8. | Points of View Editor's Note: Probably the most exciting moment in the early life of "The Grapevine" after its actual birth, came with the first batch of mail. We couldn't believe it! This puny infant had apparently given such a lusty yell on emerging that it had been heeded right across the country. There were fat letters, and this is what they held: 34 subscriptions from Philadelphia; 19 from San Diego, Cal.; 11 from Madison, Wis.; 9 from Kansas City, Mo.; 7 from Alexandria, Va.; 6 from Kent, Ohio; 6 from Los Angeles, Cal.; 4 from Ashtabula, Ohio; 4 from Fulton, N. Y.; 3 from Chicago; and many individual ones from Washington, D. C., Akron, Ohio; Bridgeport, Conn., Cleveland, Harrisburg, Pa. and ... | July 1944 | |
| 9. | 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 | |
| 10. | Central Office Notes P.O. Box 459, Honolulu Jan. 23, 1944 Dear Central Office: | August 1944 | |
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