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SEE Magazine, September 1949 issue. Swimsuit model Linda Lombard is on the cover. This issue features a five-page article on

Alcoholics Anonymous entitled Medical Care for Alcoholics: Brooklyn hospital maintains special de-alcoholization ward for

patients. It mentions AA's effectiveness in classifying alcoholism as a disease, and provides and introduction and overview of the

beginning of the organization in the text. It also shows a five-page photo essay (with a staged actor to preserve anonymity) of a

complete case study, starting in a bar with an AA veteran suggesting treatment to the main character. It shows scenes from St.

John's Hospital, the various stages of intake and treatment and at the end, the patient is shown at an AA meeting telling his story.

A great piece. Also in this issue: How Deadly is the Atom Bomb? (a big feature on the effects of gamma radiation from the blast

at Nagasaki with grim photos of victims, and a look at NYC if an atomic bomb would strike); a pictorial feature on Ballet and the

accompanying superstitions; a big film feature on For Them That Trespass; a feature on artist Henry Koerner; some very unusual

antique musical instrument specimens; Bob Hope and Lucille Ball in 'Sorrowful Jones' (with a 4-page feature); an Indian

contortionist practitioner of Hathayoga; and more !

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SEE Magazine, September 1949 issue. Swimsuit model Linda Lombard is on the cover. This issue features a five-page article on Alcoholics Anonymous entitled Medical Care for Alcoholics: Brooklyn hospital maintains special de-alcoholization ward for patients. It mentions AA's effectiveness in classifying alcoholism as a disease, and provides and introduction and overview of the beginning of the organization in the text. It also shows a five-page photo essay (with a staged actor to preserve anonymity) of a complete case study, starting in a bar with an AA veteran suggesting treatment to the main character. It shows scenes from St. John's Hospital, the various stages of intake and treatment and at the end, the patient is shown at an AA meeting telling his story.