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| 1. | The Words of a Dangling Man (by David R.) "Off Again, On Again Finnegan" has a new lot of loyal rooters: the "You're In--You're Out" selective service inductees, aged twenty-six to thirty-eight. | June 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. | 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 | |
| 4. | Points of View (by Doc" N.) Dear Grapevine: Your second issue at hand inspires me to an idea. I'm sure there are other A.A.s who, like myself, are finding in A.A. the highway to freedom from narcotics. Why not give us a "hophead's corner" in The Grapevine? After all, we do have a particular problem. Even if mine is essentially the same problem of all alcoholics, I occasionally could wish that there were just one other narcotic victim in my A.A. group with whom I might share experiences. And though through the help of the Higher Power and my A.A. friends I no longer take morphine, I realize I fear it in a way I've ceased fearing alcohol. If I could just share experiences with ... | August 1944 | |
| 5. | 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 | |
| 6. | Points of View (by Doc M.) North Carolina -- Dear Grapevine: I noticed recently in an issue of The Grapevine a letter from Doc N, who had found release from narcotic addiction through A.A. This letter I was most glad to see, and hasten to assure him and others that his experience is one that is beginning to be shared by quite a few. We have in our club five men who have had many years of drug addiction but who are finding complete freedom from drugs and are well on the highway to successful and happy living. Their period of freedom varies from 5 months to 6 years and they all attribute this to the help of a Higher Power that has come to them through A.A. ... | September 1944 | |
| 7. | Points of View (by Walter L.) Illinois -- Dear Grapevine: I was particularly pleased with Philip Wylie's article because I found therein a well-phrased statement of my own view of the "spiritual experience," arrived at by honest thought and effort for the past sixteen months. . . . Last Wednesday noon the subject of religious experience was brought up. I answered this in my stumbling way by saying that each of us could have such experience only when we "got on center with ourselves"; if that were not clear we could express it thus: "When we fully realized for the first time in our lives the essential dignity of ourselves as human beings." I further stated that this realization could be achieved through return to a formal ... | October 1944 | |
| 8. | Mail Call for All A. A.s in the Armed Forces On this page in the July issue, we printed a letter from Sergeant Bob H., then in Hawaii. Bob has recently returned from the Islands to attend Officer's Candidate School in the United States. While he was in New York on furlough, we asked him to contribute an article on how A.A. had helped him over the rough spots in an Army career of approximately two years. Emphasis should be placed, we think, on the fact that Bob entered the Service after only four months as an A.A. He had, however, so firm a grasp of the program that he has made an uninterrupted progress in a completely new field of endeavor. | November 1944 | |
| 9. | Editorial: (by Richard S.) Since I cannot speak for anyone else, I'll have to make my experience with the 4th step autobiographical. Before A.A., I tried almost daily to stop drinking. I hated myself constantly. I could not understand why such a wonderful person as I was would do the things I did. I was in a constant state of mental turmoil and misery, and I knew that I could not handle liquor. | February 1945 | |
| 10. | Do You Know: (by Jack B.) In 1936 I quit drinking, not knowing then that I was an alcoholic but knowing I was a drunkard. I desperately wanted to quit and knew I had to, if I was not to lose everything I valued. | April 1945 | |
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