From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... Post and
placed such a compelling picture ...
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
Then Jack Alexander wrote a feature article in the Saturday Evening Post and placed such a compelling picture of A.A. before the general public that alcoholics in need of help really deluged us.
2.
... post only
two storm signals: A group ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
In charting this enormous expanse of freedom, we found it necessary to post only two storm signals: A group ought not do anything which
would greatly injure A.A. as a whole, nor ought it affiliate itself with anything or anybody else.
3.
... Post piece
broke in 1941, thousands of ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
He explains that when Jack
Alexander's Saturday
Evening Post piece broke in 1941, thousands of frantic letters from distraught alcoholics
and their families hit the
Foundation(*) letterbox in New York.
4.
... Post piece
made A.A. a national institution.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
5.
Post-war disillusionment,
ever more serious alcoholism, impending ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
Post-war disillusionment, ever
more serious alcoholism, impending
mental and physical collapse, brought him to
the point of self-destruction.
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