A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit

In connection with the Kentucky Derby A.A. drew mention from two New York Herald Tribune sports columnists. Writing in "Views of Sport" Red Smith in describing the week said in part "The Kentucky metropolis is called the Fall City, presumably out of respect for the fall guys who rent hotel beds here during the first week in May under the preposterous delusion that the beds will be slept in. However, it cannot be said that the hotel managements are not both forehanded and considerate. In one hotel, for example, there is furnished to each guest, free of charge, the local address of Alcoholics Anonymous together with the hours of its meetings and the notation, "Everybody welcome." In another Herald Tribune column Joe H. Palmer wrote "And a great many who do see The Derby have only a fragmentary idea of what they are looking at. It is a combined picnic, old home week, fashion show and a national reunion for all persons who have resigned from Alcoholics Anonymous." A United Press story sent out from New York says "Don Black, former big league bad boy whose escapades sent him back to the minors, was following the soda pop trail today to a comeback with the Cleveland Indians" and goes on to say that he has joined A.A.