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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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... Saturday.   BB p.136, To Employers   Go to page 136 in the Big Book
I still expected a plea for clemency, but these words came through the receiver: "I just wanted to tell you Paul jumped from a hotel window in Hartford last Saturday.


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... Saturday afternoon saying she wanted me to ...   BB p.179, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 179 in the Big Book
About this time a lady called up my wife one Saturday afternoon saying she wanted me to come over that evening to meet a friend of hers who might help me.


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... Saturday Evening Post and placed such a ...   BB xviii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire 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.

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... Saturday Evening Post piece broke in 1941, ...   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.

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... Saturday Evening Post piece made A.A. a ...   12&12 p.186, Tradition Twelve
Jack Alexander's famous Saturday Evening Post piece made A.A. a national institution.


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