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| 1. | The Pleasures of Reading One of the minor characters in The Razor's Edge, W. Somerset Maugham's new book (Doubleday Doran, 2.75), will seem real to A.A.s. The shy, poetically inclined daughter of a well-to-do mid-western family, robbed of her husband and small child in a car crash, first seeks relief, then oblivion, in alcohol and opium. She threads her way through the lives of childhood friends until her final release, a corpse drifting in the Mediterranean. Her moments of exhilaration, frantic grappling for help, are skillfully and sympathetically presented. Parallel in time, the main theme of the story follows the search for faith by a war flier who watched others grow rich in lush times, lose their fortunes in the depressions and, with ... | August 1944 | |
| 2. | The Pleasures of Reading (by Charlie P.) Mystery stories may be an alcoholic form of escape, but at least, they're a pretty harmless form, and the blood flows between book jackets instead of straightjackets. So, you crime-hungry A.A.s, here's a nice, criminal check list of recent blood-and-thunders that may whet your post-alcoholic appetites! No Little Enemy, O. W. Bayer (DD[1]): A brilliant political cartoonist goes on a war bond tour with some nifty chorines; the combo knocks a lot of people dead. Well-written, lively, fast-paced. | September 1944 | |
| 3. | Along the Metropolitan Circuit BERGEN COUNTY USES ADS. . . Dissatisfied with lackadaisical 12th-step activities, and determined to tackle the local problem of alcoholism more vigorously, we recently began to insert A.A. ads in the Bergen Evening Record, the county's leading newspaper, These ads, with copy changes each week, appear three times weekly. Following is the text of one ad: | October 1944 | |
| 4. | 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 | |
| 5. | Along the Metropolitan Circuit BERGEN COUNTY INVITES EXCHANGES. . . The new Chairman and Secretary-Treasurer, elected recently at a closed meeting, immediately embarked upon an enlarged program. The aim is to accelerate activities to accommodate the large influx of new members coming in as a result of this Group's advertising which has been appearing three times weekly in the Bergen Evening Record since last August. The new officers will welcome proposals to exchange speakers with other groups along the Metropolitan Circuit. . . . Address: P. O. Box 282, Englewood, N. J. | November 1944 | |
| 6. | Bill's Wife Remembers When He and She and the First A. A.s Were Very Young (by Bill W.'s wife, Lois Wilson) As the wife of an early A.A., some of our experiences and my reactions to my husband's changed life may be interesting to other wives. Bill was an alcoholic, I believe, from the first drink he ever took, just a few months before our marriage. From then on, for seventeen years, I did everything I could think of to keep him away from liquor. | December 1944 | |
| 7. | Letters to the Grapevine. . . (by W. S.) Connecticut -- Dear Grapevine: The National Committee for Education on Alcoholism is sending speakers throughout the country to acquaint the public with the problems of the alcoholic. Instruction is being given to the relatives and friends of men and women in the armed forces of the country as to their treatment when they return, many of them sick in mind and body. Is it not time that a group be formed, using the same methods the A.A.s themselves use, which will be helpful to the relatives and friends of alcoholics? | February 1945 | |
| 8. | Chapter XXIBoomerang Kidd Whistler had been optimistic about Joe. All the A.A.s were positive Joe would snap out of it. "Sure, he'd had a slip--so had plenty of other members--but Joe had been in the group too long to go off the deep end--and stay off." Emily was confident too. | March 1945 | |
| 9. | II (by R. S.) New Jersey -- In Persons and Places, the first volume of the autobiography of George Santayana, famous philosopher and author of The Last Puritan, Santayana describes a classmate of his at Harvard in the '80s of whom he was particularly fond. To the cognoscenti (us) this pen portait speaks for itself: | September 1945 | |
| 10. | One Day at a Time (by H. W.) Dear Editor: Here is an article I clipped from Read Magazine, which in turn reprinted it from The Sunbury (Pennsylvania) Daily Item. | September 1945 | |
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