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| 1. | 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 | |
| 2. | 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 | |
| 3. | Do You Know: (by Felicia G.) New York -- I've been in A.A. for two years and during this time I have told hundreds of people about it. As a writer it is my business to know all kinds of people. As an individual, it is my pleasure to do so. I have friends and friendly acquaintances of all ages, backgrounds, religious creeds, and types of education. People in every imaginable occupation from cook to Cabinet Member. Also in these two years, I have met countless strangers, made endless new acquaintances. Whenever the subject has come up, I have said that I don't drink any more. And if people have shown any interest I've told them all about A.A. But in all this time I have had only ... | May 1945 | |
| 4. | Letters to the Grapevine. . . (by Roy Y.) Florida -- Dear Grapevine: How often a person will go to a friend, asking advice, and all the while he has definitely decided upon the course he will follow. Actually he is not seeking advice; he wants approval. | May 1945 | |
| 5. | Editorial: (by L. J.) "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. | June 1945 | |
| 6. | Editorial: (by B. H.) New York -- "Made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others." | July 1945 | |
| 7. | Editorial: (by R. D.) New York -- "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understand Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out." | September 1945 | |
| 8. | Mail Call for All A.A.s at Home Or Abroad (by A. F.) (Editor's Note: With the cessation of hostilities, Mail Call is thrown open to all A.A.s, those still far away with the victorious armed forces, those returning to civil life, and those on the home front who face the same fight.) | September 1945 | |
| 9. | Vino Vignettes: (by N.F.) I heard about A.A. at a Christmas party last year but I thought it was a sort of club that would get someone off a bender --period! Right then, I was on the wagon so I wasn't even interested enough to ask many questions about it, and I might add that I was a pretty sour-faced female along about then. | November 1945 | |
| 10. | We're Not Perfect Yet, Bill Cautions at Banquet A gentle but earnest reminder that "we still have plenty of faults" and that A.A. will continue to succeed only by adhering to the simple "principles of honesty, tolerance and humility" were the keynotes of Bill's talk at the 11th annual banquet in New York on Nov. 7. | December 1945 | |
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