The Elrick B. Davis Articles From The Cleveland Plain Dealer October - November 1939 These articles appeared in the main Cleveland newspaper, the Plain Dealer,...
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Mar 30, 2002 5:00 pm
Reprinted from the October 23, 1939, Cleveland Plain Dealer with permission. Alcoholics Anonymous Makes Its Stand Here By ELRICK B. DAVIS In a previous...
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Mar 30, 2002 9:03 pm
Reprinted from the October 24, 1939, Cleveland Plain Dealer with permission. Alcoholics Anonymous Makes Its Stand Here By ELRICK B. DAVIS In two previous...
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Mar 30, 2002 9:19 pm
Reprinted from the October 25, 1939, Cleveland Plain Dealer with permission. Alcoholics Anonymous Makes Its Stand Here By ELRICK B. DAVIS In three previous...
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Mar 30, 2002 9:47 pm
Reprinted from the October 26, 1939, Cleveland Plain Dealer with permission. Alcoholics Anonymous Makes Its Stand Here By ELRICK B. DAVIS In previous...
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Mar 30, 2002 10:08 pm
Reprinted from the November 2, 1939, Cleveland Plain Dealer with permission. A NOTED DIVINE REVIEWS "ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS" By ELRICK B. DAVIS In a recent...
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Mar 30, 2002 10:22 pm
Reprinted from the November 4, 1939, Cleveland Plain Dealer with permission. A PHYSICIAN LOOKS UPON ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS By ELRICK B. DAVIS Dr. Silkworth The...
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Apr 1, 2002 9:52 pm
Charles Towns, owner of Towns' Hospital where Bill Wilson had sobered up, tried to get publicity for A.A. and finally succeeded. He had known Morris Markey, a...
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Apr 2, 2002 4:10 pm
In March 1941, a feature article entitled "Alcoholics Anonymous" appeared in the "Saturday Evening Post." This is how it came about. Jim Burwell ("The Vicious...
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Apr 2, 2002 4:45 pm
This is the Jack Alexander article from the March 1941 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. THREE MEN sat around the bed of an alcoholic patient in the...
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Apr 2, 2002 5:10 pm
ROCKEFELLER'S GIFT was a small one, in deference to the insistence of the originators that the movement be kept on a voluntary, non paid basis. There are no...
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Apr 2, 2002 5:53 pm
This is Jack Alexander's second story. It was published in April of 1950, when A.A. was just shy of 15 years old. The Drunkard's Best Friend By Jack Alexander...
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Apr 2, 2002 7:18 pm
Part 2 of Jack Alexander's story in the Saturday Evening Post, April 1950: But at some place along the line his power drive meets up with an obstacle it cannot...
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Apr 3, 2002 7:57 pm
The first case of an anonymity break at the national level occurred in May 1940. Ralston Burdett "Rollie" Hemsley was born June 24, 1907, in Syracuse, Ohio. ...
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Apr 3, 2002 10:34 pm
April 14, 1959 Dear Russ, Am right sorry for my delay in answering. Lois and I were a long time out of the country and this was followed by an attack of the...
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Apr 4, 2002 11:40 am
My thanks to Charles and Doug of AA History & Trivia for permission to copy this from their website. The Origin of our Serenity Prayer As published in...
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Apr 4, 2002 1:28 pm
(Original source of this piece unknown.) SERENITY PRAYER HISTORY A note from the correspondence of the Washington D.C. Group on the mystery that surrounds the...
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Apr 5, 2002 1:38 pm
This series was originally posted to AA History Buffs by Jim Blair. These excerpts from various talks and articles by and on Bill W. reveal a wealth of the...
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Apr 5, 2002 1:48 pm
From Jim Blair. Q - Do alcoholics as a class differ from other people? A - Some years ago the doctors began to look at Alcoholics Anonymous and they got about...
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Apr 5, 2002 1:54 pm
From Jim Blair. Q - Are alcoholics neurotic? A - It is possible that about half our members, had they not been drinkers, would have appeared in ordinary life...
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Apr 5, 2002 1:55 pm
From Jim Blair. Q - What is alcoholism? A - Alcoholism is a malady; that something is dead wrong with us physically; that our reaction to alcohol has changed;...
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Apr 5, 2002 2:20 pm
From Jim Blair. Q - What is meant by mental obsession and the obsessional character of alcoholism? A - Well, as I understand it, we are all born with the...
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Apr 5, 2002 2:27 pm
From Jim Blair. Q - Is A.A. based totally on your own experiences? A - Let's look. Dr. Bob recovered. Then we two set to work on alcoholics in Akron. Well,...
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Apr 5, 2002 2:33 pm
From Jim Blair. Here is another installment from the "Let's Ask Bill" series. This one has two responses to the question. Q - Is Alcoholics Anonymous a new...
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Apr 5, 2002 2:48 pm
From Jim Blair. Q - Just how does A.A. work? A - I cannot fully answer that question. Many A.A. techniques have been adopted after a ten-year period of trial...
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Apr 5, 2002 3:09 pm
From Jim Blair. This question has 5 responses from various documents. Q - What is the success rate of Alcoholics Anonymous? A - Of those sincerely willing to...
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Apr 5, 2002 3:16 pm
From Jim Blair. Q - Wouldn't too rapid growth be bad, both for the new alcoholics and for Alcoholics Anonymous itself? A - Some of us used to think so, but...
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Apr 5, 2002 3:26 pm
From Jim Blair. This installment in the series is a very powerful response by Bill W. Q - How can A.A. best assure its continued existence? A - Since the...
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Apr 5, 2002 3:39 pm
From Jim Blair. Q - What contribution did Dr. Carl Jung make to A.A.? A - Few people know that the first taproot of A.A. hit paydirt some thirty years ago in a...
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Apr 5, 2002 3:45 pm
From Jim Blair. Here is installment No. 13 in the series. It has multiple responses. Q - What effect did Ebby's message have on you? A - Well, by this time I...
