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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. | 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 | |
| 6. | Editorial: (by D. S.) Funny thing after all these years. . .but it seems I haven't known too much about A.A. and what it really meant until just lately. And I suppose I shall go on as long as I live, and remain in A.A., feeling from week to week, month to month, and maybe even year to year, that I am only just beginning to have some-appreciation of what it all means, how big it is. | August 1944 | |
| 7. | Five Alcoholics Looking for the Perfect Pitch More and more musicians and show people are getting into A.A. In our New York group, we have a young orchestra. Rudy is the greatest French horn player in the country. Koussevitzky said that his solo in Tschaikovsky's Fifth has never been surpassed. But Rudy went on benders, dragging his French horn with him to bars, always hanging on to it. Friends dragged Rudy out of a hotel hallway one night whither he had escaped stark naked, to 'surpass himself' in a horn solo. | August 1944 | |
| 8. | Mail Call for All A.A.s in the Armed Forces (by Y.G.) In answer to our D-day letter, that old raconteur, Warrant Officer Norman M., shot one back at us from the South Pacific in near record time. His letter, dated June 15, enclosed as an exchange copy for The Grapevine an amusing Picture Supplement to an Air Force paper. Norman writes: "The Grapevine! There's a sardonic double entendre masthead if I ever saw one. It, like the whole tone of the paper, is perfectly A.A. in spirit. The utter lack of finality in editorializing as well as its sense of humor about its mission is grand! And what a gem it is for an A.A. to get overseas. Alcoholics are such a peculiarly 'much-in-common' group that I sometimes doubt how ... | August 1944 | |
| 9. |  New Theory Re: The Blind Staggers | August 1944 | |
| 10. | 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 | |
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