A.A'.s Country-wide News Circuit

Webster gives the definition of "lovelorn" as "forsaken by one's love." So it's not surprising to find alcoholics discussed every now and then in the Beatrice Fairfax syndicated column "Lovelorn," always accompanied by a lucid exposition of some phase of A.A. A late column cites Edgar Allan Poe as one tragic case of an alcoholic who was also a genius. And Stephen Foster, who wrote "Way Down Upon the Swanee River," and many of our cherished songs, drank up a fortune and died in a Broadway flophouse. A realist, the writer of "Lovelorn" doesn't fail to mention, along with the geniuses and near-geniuses, us common mortals who make up the majority of alcoholics--among whom are many returning veterans taking the short cut of alcoholic relief from battle fatigue and bomb neurosis; and the home-keeping men and women who have rushed to drink to blunt the raw anguish of the death of loved ones.