PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS
IN THE BOOK
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
PAGE
PARA. | PERSON, PLACE, OR THING | DESCRIPTION
xv/3 |
Oxford Groups |
nondenominational evangelical movement flourished 1920's & early 30's, led by one time Lutheran Minister, Dr. Frank Buckman
xv/3 | during a talk between | Bill Wilson & Dr. Bob
xvi/t | alcoholic friend in contact with | Ebby Thacher
xv/3 |
tenets
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tenets of Oxford Group known as Four Absolutes: Love, Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness
xvii/1
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very first case | their very 1st case was Eddie Riley, their 1st successful case Bill Dotson who became AA #3 (sober date 6/26/35)
xxiii/1 | well-known doctor | William Duncan Silkworth, M.D.
xxiii/1 | chief physician | actual title `Medical Director' time endorsement letters written
xxiiii/1 | nationally prominent hospital | Charles B. Towns Hospital, New York, NY., now apartment building
xxiii/4 | patient he regarded as hopeless | Bill Wilson
xxv/3 | after many years' experience as Medical Director | Dr. Silkworth had 9 years of experience with alcoholics & drug addicts when he wrote this
xxv/3 | one of the leading contributors to this book | Bill Wilson
xxix/2 | man brought in to be treated for chronic alcoholism | Henry Parkurst, author "The Unbeliever" 1st edition
xxix/3 | another case, had hid in a barn | Fitz Mayo, author "Our Southern Friend" 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th editions
1/1 | I discovered liquor | Bill's first drink age 22 at party, Bronx cocktail (gin, dry and sweet vermouth, & orange juice)
1/2 | Winchester Cathedral | Bill said of this experience (Here I stood on the edge of the abyss into which thousands were falling that very day. A feeling of despair settled down on me - where was He - why did He not come - and suddenly in that moment of darkness, He was there. I felt an all enveloping, comforting, powerful presence. Tears stood in my eyes, and as I looked about, I glimpsed the great reality.) Bill had a spiritual experience.
2/1 | night law course | Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2/2 | $1,000 | about $12,000 today
2/2 | certain securities then cheap | 1920's
2/3 | off we roared |
Harley Davidson motorcycle, April, 1925
3/3 | Walter Hagen | top professional golfer (1892-1969) reached apex his career 1914 to 1929
3/t | worked on a farm for a month | Goldfoot's farm, Scotia, N.Y.
4/t | exclusive (golf) course | Aquanic Country Club
4/2 | XYZ-32 (stock) |
Penick & Ford, corn products company
4/2 | friend in Montreal | Dick Johnson, Greenshields & Co, brokerage house
4/2 | by the following spring | 1930
4/2 | wife (Lois) began to work in a department store | 1930, Macy's department store
4/2 | Elba & St. Helena | Napolean Bonaparte (1769-1821) exiled island Elba off west coast Italy, escaped & returned power, exiled again--permanently--to island St. Helena off west coast Africa after his defeat, battle of Waterloo
4/3 | my wife parent's | Dr. Clark & Mrs. Burnham, 182 Clinton Street, Brooklyn Heights, N.Y.
4/3 | request of a brawl with a taxi driver | a bar room brawl
5/3 | 1932 formed group to buy (buying syndicate) - chance vanished | A. Wheeler & F. Winans
5/4 | written sweet promises | Bill wrote promises to stop drinking in his family Bible
7/t | forty pounds under weight | early spring 1934
7/1 | brother-in-law | Dr. Leonard V. Strong, Jr. (husband sister Dorothy) & Dr. Emily (his mother)
7/1 | nationally-known hospital | Charles B. Towns Hospital
7/1 | belladonna treatment | belladonna name of sedative, antispasmodic drug extracted from roots belladonna plant, drug used relief muscle spasms, especially in gastro-intestinal tact, due nausea & diarrhea, no longer standard medical treatment
7/1 | met a kind doctor | William Duncan Silkworth, M.D.
7/3 | After a time I returned to the hospital | summer, 1934
8/2 | Armistice Day | celebrated Nov. 11th from 1919 to 1971 to commemorate end WWI Nov 11, 1918, renamed "Veterans's Day" 1954, celebrated 4th Monday October
8/4 | old school friend | Edwin "Ebby" Thatcher, sober August, 1934, Bill Wilson looked upon Ebby as his sponsor
8/4 | alcoholic insanity | name commonly used prior to mid-20th century for illness of alcoholism
9/t | chartered an airplane | January 1929, from Albany N.Y. to newly opened airfield, Manchester Vt.
9/6 | two men | Rowland H. sober 1932 & Cebra G., both members N.Y. Oxford Group
10/1 | Bill's grandfather | Fayette Griffith
10/2 | Winchestere Cathedral | page 1
12/4 | the Cathedral | Cathedral, page 1
13/1 | At the hospital I was separated | December 12, 1934
13/2 | not had a drink since | Bill's sobriety date December 11, 1934, 39 years old, 36 years sober, age 75
13/3 | schoolmate visited at hospital with a friend | Ebby & Shep Cornell
14/2 | God's impact on Bill | December 14, 1934, 3 days sober, result pages 13 & 14, the Steps
14/3 | friend, the doctor | Dr. Silkworth
14/6 | My friend had emphasized | Ebby Thacher, Bill's sponsor
15/2 | one western city | Cleveland, Ohio
16/1 | One poor chap committed suicide | Bill C., a lawyer, summer 1936, stayed with Bill & Lois about a year
16/1 | in my home | 182 Clinton Street, Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. (owned by Dr. Clark & Mrs. Burnham)
16/note | Bill Wilson, co-founder | Bill died with 36 years sober, age 75
21/2 | Here is the fellow who has been puzzling you | mostly from Bill's story
26/1 | certain American business man | Rowland Hazard, treated by Dr. Carl Jung 1931
26/1 | consulted best know American psychiatrists | Freud was sick & Adler was booked up so Rowland ended with Jung
28/1 | extraordinary experience | 1932
32/2 | A man of thirty | from 1931 book "The Common Sense of Drinking" by Richard Peabody
35/2 | Jim | Ralph Furlong, author "Another Prodigal Son" 1st edition
39/2 | Fred | Harry Brick, author "A Different Slant" 1st edition
43/2 | staff member | Dr. Percy Polick, a psychiatrist
43/2 | world renowned hospital | Bellevue Hospital, N.Y.
50/3 | American Statesman | Alfred E. "Al" Smith, 4 time governor N.Y., unsuccessful 1st Roman Catholic Presidential candidate 1928
51/1 | Galileo | Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian astronomer & physicist, credited with formulation Law of Falling Bodies, for that discovery, met with bitter resistance because he contradicted theory of Aristotle & was therefore forced leave university post, Church also bitterly opposed his discoveries in astronomy
51/2 | Wright Brothers | Orvill (1871-1948) & Wilbur (1867-1912) Wright, 1st powered air flight Kittyhawk, N.C. 1904
51/2 | Professor Langley | Samuel Pierpont Langley, Scientist & early pioneer flight mechanics, successfully flew models but failed attempt launch full-scale aircraft
55/5 | experience of a man | Fitz Mayo, author "Our Southern Friend" in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th editions
56/1 | a minister's son | Fitz Mayo
56/2 | approached by an alcoholic | Bill Wilson
76/3 | Faith without works is dead | Book of James 2:20,26
79/2 | man we know was remarried | unknown who he was
80/2 | he accepted a sum of money | Oxford Group member, unknown who he was
96/1 | one of our fellowship | Bill Wilson
97/2 | We seldom allow | Bill Wilson referring Bill C. experience, a lawyer (One poor chap [page 16, paragraph 1, line 3]) who lived with them about a year, committed suicide 1936
104 | Chapter 8, TO THE WIVES | written by Bill Wilson
133/3 | One of the many doctors | unknown who he was
135/2 | one of our friends is a heavy smoker | Earl Treat, author "He Sold Himself Short", 2d edition, from Chicago, Il.
136 | Chapter 10, TO EMPLOYERS | initial draft written by Hank Parkurst, author "The Unbeliever" 1st edition
136/3 | I was at one time | Henry Parkurst
136/3 | Mr. B | unknown
137/t,1 | best salesman, man who hung himself | unknown
138/1 | officer of one of the largest | Frank Winans
138/1 | executive of the same bank | Bob E. or Rowland Hazard
139/3 | teetotaler | person who abstains from all alcoholic beverages
140/2 | doctor in Chicago | Dan Craske, M.D., believed spinal taps cured alcoholism
141/1 | nothing my company | Hank Parkfurst, Standard Oil N.J.
148/4 | vice president | unknown
149/4 | I own a little company | Honor Dealers Co., automobile polish distributorship
149/4 | two alcoholic employees | Bill Wilson & Jim B. author "The Vicious Cycle" in 1st, 2nd, 3rd 4th editions & Bill Wilson
151/3 | King Alcohol | Bill's former higher power
151/3 | Four Horsemen | Revelations 6:2-8 war, famine, pestilence, death personified 4 plagues of mankind
153/4 | one of our number | Bill Wilson
153/4 | certain western city | Akron, Oh.
153/4 | business (of trip) | National Rubber Machinery involved in a proxy fight with Beer and Company
154/1 | in a strange place | Akron, Oh.
154/2 | hotel hobby | Mayflower Hotel, Akron, Oh., now Mayflower Manor Apartments
154/4 | clergyman | Rev. Walter F. Tunks, Rector St. Paul's Episcopal church, Cuyahoga Falls, Oh., now located Akron, Oh.
155/t | Selecting a church at random | the old Episcopal Church
155/1 | certain resident | Robert Holbrook Smith, M.D. Co-founder A.A., author "The Doctors Nightmare" in 1st edition, retitled as "Dr. Bob's Nightmare" in 2nd, 3rd, 4th editions
155/3 | his home | 855 Ardmore Avenue Akron, Oh. house designated national historical landmark November 5, 1985
155/3 | a roaring bender | AMA convention, Atlantic City, N.J.
155/note | Bill's first visit | Sunday, May 12, 1935
156/2 | not had a drink since | Dr. Bob's sobriety date June 10, 1935, 55 years old, June 10th defined birth of A.A. & date know as "Founders Day"
156/3 | head nurse | Mrs. Hall, admissions nurse
156/3 | local hospital | Akron City Hospital, Akron, Oh.
156/3 | alcoholic prospect |
Bill D., a lawyer, author story "Alcoholics Anonymous Number Three" in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th editions
158/4 | June, 1935 | Bill D's sobriety date June 26, 1935
158/5 | devil-may-care young fellow |
Ernie G. ("the 1st"), author "The Seven Month Slip" 1st edition, 30 years old
159/2 | our friend of the hotel lobby | Bill Wilson
159/2 | leaving behind his first acquaintance | Dr. Bob, Bill Dotson, Ernie G.
160/1 | man and his wife | T. Henry & Clarace Williams, members Akron Oxford Group
160/1 | their large home | 676 Palisades Drive, Akron, Oh.
161/1 | a community | Cleveland, Oh.
161/3 | In one of these | New York
162/t | well-known hospital | Charles B. Towns Hospital
162/t | one of our number | Bill Wilson
162/1 | this doctor | William D. Silkworth, M.D.
162/1 | western friends | Ohio
162/2 | our two large centers | New York & Akron/Cleveland
163/2 | an A.A. member | Henry Parkurst, author "The Unbeliever" 1st edition
163/2 | of an A.A. member | Hank Parkurst
163/2 | large community | Montclair, N. J.
163/2 | prominent psychiatrist | Dr. Howard, Montclair, N.J., chief psychiatrist for N.J.
163/3 | Arrangements | by Bob & Mag V.
163/3 | the chief psychiatrist | Dr. Russell E. Blaisdell
163/3 | large pubic hospital | Rockland State Hospital, Rockland Country near Orangeburg, N.Y.
570/4 | "There is a principle which is a bar against all... | Herbert Spencer, noted English philosopher, 1903, came from his book; Principles of Biology.