AA and the Grapevine. . .The First Ten Years

IT'S HARD to realize today that when the year 1944 began, alcoholism was still a hush-hush word, not to be uttered above a whisper, taboo to most people, and unknown as a word to even more. The press was afraid of it, afraid of the public's reaction to such an "unpleasant" subject--so much so that even the phenomenal response the Saturday Evening Post had received to the now-famous Jack Alexander article on AA in March 1941 had not convinced other publications that they, too, might safely publish articles on alcoholism and AA.