Grapevine, August 1948 News Circuit of A.A.s from All Parts of The World NYU Inaugurates Health Series--Announcement has been made of a series of annual Health...
To the HistoryLovers: Does anyone have copies or transcripts of any kind of talks given by Dr. Bob? (Besides the ones we all know of, such as the 1948 Detriot...
Dear Group, This post is the last of these News Circuits and New Groups columns that I have. I've enjoyed reading and sharing them ... hope ya'll have too. t ...
ILLINOIS TO OPEN FIRST HOSITAL TO TREAT ALCOHOLICS (A clipping-March 31, 1943) A state hospital devoted to the treatment of chronic alcoholism will he opened...
Seattle AA Remembers Founder 'Bill W.' by: George Foster The faces in the crowd - some showing the strain of harder times past, some bespectacled business...
Alcoholics Cannot Learn to be "Social Drinkers" By James E. Royce Can alcoholics be conditioned to drink socially? Under such titles as "harm reduction" and...
VAUGHAN, STEVIE RAY (1954-1990). Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues musician and guitar legend, was born in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas on October 3, 1954, to Jim...
Alcoholics Anonymous buoys members, aides By Marcia Gelbart (In keeping with the traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous, no real names are used to identify AA...
Hello I have a quote taken from an artical titled "BEWARE;Hard Drinkers& Fakers Inside!" copyright 1957 Floyd H. The quote atributed to Bill W. is "We cannot...
Hello Jarvis, This quote is taken from Bill Wilson's Grapevine article "God As We Understand Him: The Dilemma of No Faith," April 1961. For a full transcript,...
That quote is from an April 1961 "AA Grapevine" article "The Dilemma of No Faith" by Bill W. The article is on-line in the Grapevine Archives at: ...
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Grapevine, April 1961 First of a series on the workings of AA principles ". . . in all our affairs." God As We Understand Him By Bill THE DILEMMA OF NO FAITH ...
This post will begin a series of AA Digest columns from early Grapevines, another thin slice of AA History. My thanks to the friend who sent these to me for...
_____ In a Dry Era You Can Still Be Trapped by Drinking Sure, the three-martini lunch is long gone, but that glass of chardonnay can sneak up on you. New...
Grapevine Jan. 1946 A.A. DIGEST Excerpts from Group Publications 'Central Bulletin,' Cleveland, Ohio:—"It is with an increasing feeling of alarm that we view...
Grapevine, Feb. '46 A.A. DIGEST Excerpts from Group Publications 'A.A. Tribune', Des Moines, Iowa: "If there is someone that needs information on alcoholism,...
Have just read The Glass Crutch: the biographical novel of William Wynne Wister, by Jim Bishop; Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., New York, 1945. In it Wister...
Greetings fellow history lovers. Quite by accident, I stumbled across a website with a variety of transcripts from talks given by folks from AA's past. It's...
Grapevine, March 46 A.A. DIGEST —Excerpts from Group Publications 'The Eye-Opener', Los Angeles, Calif.: "The following figures are submitted by the...
Just off the top of my head, the organization is probably the Research Council on the Problems of Alcohol(ism), funded in part by the Rockefellers, and...
Quite a few inquiries here to address. Here are some answers: 1. Richard Peabody published a book titled The Common Sense of Drinking in 1934, based on his...
Hi Jared, Regarding your question about William Wister, the report I got many years ago was that he didn't make it and died after continuous drinking. In "The...
Mel Barger
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Nov 10, 2003 8:49 pm
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i'm looking for searcy's talk, "into the 21st century" that he gave at the 2000 convention in minneapolis. i have it in audio form, i would like to have it in ...
Grapevine, April '46 A.A. DIGEST—Excerpts from Group Publications 'Camel Club Chronicle', Marshalltown, Iowa: "There are some of us who get sober and go...
On November 2nd, the New York Times Book Review carried a review of a book by Reinhold Niebuhr's daughter. She doesn't seem to like it that the prayer is used...
Mel Barger
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Nov 12, 2003 2:13 pm
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Just to add a little to Mel's info: NY newspaperman, and AA member Jack C, provided Ruth Hock with the prayer from the obituary section of a June 1941 edition...
Grapevine, May '46 A. A. DIGEST—Excerpts from Group Publications 'Central Bulletin', Cleveland, Ohio: "The trustees of Cleveland Public Library gratefully...
From Mel Barger---- Hi Friends, It may be that I erred in referring to 1943 as the time of Niebuhr's authorship of The Serenity Prayer---but it was a date his...
Mel Barger
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Nov 13, 2003 8:10 pm
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Clyde; alcoholic, I found this on Google: http://open-mind.org/Serenity.htm , hope it's of some value to your search! In sobriety, Love Clyde...
I ran across these three short articles [pasted below] about the Serenity Prayer in some old Grapevines. The publication date of "Dr. Robbins' book of prayers"...
