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April 1969

The Name-droppers

After twenty years, he recalls 'a condition of panic' and how AA found a roundabout way to deliver the message

ONE WEEK from today, I will have been sober twenty years, without a drink or a pill. Certainly, this qualifies me for old-timer status; certainly, it is a plateau that justifies some looking backward on what lies in the past and some looking forward to the all too brief future.

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