From the Outside, Looking In

(How do we look to total strangers, to people who have never suffered personally from pangs of alcoholism, or who have never even lived near enough to an alky to know how violently it can effect life? Here's one answer to that question, penned by the secretary of John D. of Manhattan, who attended a meeting led by her boss at his invitation, so that she might see at first hand the people and the work that make up his extra-curricular interests.)