Can Success Boil Rock Hunter?
March 1963
By:
T. K.
| Hollywood, California
In show business, star status may dim to darkness until AA status gets top billing
Lydia T., a "Special Case
October 1962
By:
L. T.
PARIS REPORT: Even the gendarmes very gently but surely asked this beautiful young French woman to spend 90 days in a psychiatric hospital. . ."on account of my special way of driving a car
Marathon Drinkathon
January 1962
By:
J. M.
| Chicago, Illinois
Why one newspaper reporter wrote "30" to his thirst
Experiment in Latin America
October 1961
By:
E. F.
| San Salvador
We are growing so fast a census is impossible
Closed Meeting
April 1957
Canned Alcoholics
July 1955
By:
M. C.
| Jackson, Michigan
Find the straight and narrow path of Truth. . .Brotherhood. . .and Understanding.
Second excerpt from the "Internationalists Bulletin
October 1954
About 100 sea-going AAs keep sober through correspondence with each other, with General Service Headquarters, and with homebound AAs who like to write letters. Two excerpts from a recent "Internationalists Bulletin" follow.
The Problems of a "Teen-aged" AA
September 1954
By:
A. T.
| New York City, New York
TO START THE BALL ROLLING ON A GENERAL DISCUSSION OF "AFTER SOBRIETY--WHAT?" (SEE AUGUST GRAPEVINE, "THE TWELVE STEPS AND THE OLDER MEMBER") WE ASKED AN OLD TIMER TO WRITE ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN AS WE GROW OLDER IN AA.
The Compulsive Angler
September 1969
By:
Anonymous
| Jupiter, Florida
He didn't flourish in his sobriety until he quit fishing for fish and started fishing for men
It's Not Necessary to Hate Your Job
February 1966
By:
Milt W.
| Van Nuys, California
A PR writer finds that AA principles help him keep and improve a career he once thought a racket
The Good Old Daze
September 1964
By:
W. S. R.
| East Norwalk, Connecticut
You can't deny it, Kildare, we might almost have got killed. . .
That Noble Thirst
December 1963
By:
J. G.
| Manhattan, New York
On living it up like the big-time boozers--when you can hardly keep it down
The Slip That Turned Out Sober
March 1963
By:
Anon.
| Manhattan, New York
Ten years dry--then a beer and a rye<lb Then four years in hell--paved the way to get well
The Twelve Steps Revisited/Step 2
May 1961
By:
J. E.
| Guilford, Connecticut
Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Can We Permit Justice to Remain Blind?
March 1961
By:
Albert B. Logan
Before a Joint Session of the Law Society of England and the American Bar Association, an attorney stresses the need for the legal profession to recognize alcoholism as a disease
How to Drink With Impunity (or Anyone Else)
March 1961
By:
K. V.
| Glenview, Illinois
3. THE TRANSCONTINENTAL CAPRICE
No Kidding
January 1961
By:
R.M.
| Toronto, Ontario
One man's opinion: AA is a Fellowship not a Friendship Club
The Sober Critic
June 1960
A movie critic reveals some of the tactics Hollywood press agents employ to influence good notices for alcoholic performers