AA on the Potomac

IN the Spring of 1950 a friendly medical man tipped off a reporter on The Evening Star that a good feature might be developed around a group of desperate drunks who amazingly had found a way to sober up and stay that way. Most of these drunks, the doctor said, had been diagnosed as compulsive, some as hopeless, who had found a "cure" after other methods had failed and who were imbued with a passionate itch to carry their message of recovery to all the problem drinkers in Washington, D.C., and the country round-about.