*
Oetinger, Fredrich - one of possible authors of Serenity
Prayer (P
258n)
*
'Old Tom' - see Tom
M
*
Olsen, Dr. Oscar - close friend & enthusiastic
A.A. since 1947; attended Seattle Convention 1990 (G
73)
*
Oppenheimer, Dr. J. Robert - nickname 'Oppie';
physicist, asked Bill join him at Institute Advanced Study
Princeton, wanted Bill oversee & evaluate chemical
composition neuroses, mostly depression, Bill didn't (B
357-358) (P 381)
*
'Oppie' - nickname for Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
*
Ora T. - early New York A.A., Bill & Lois sublet
her furnished apartment 42 Barrow Street Greenwich Village
(L
130) (P 215)
*
Oram, Mrs. Gordon - from San Francisco, had boarder
Ted whom she got Big Book,
opened her flat 1st A.A. meeting late 1939 (A
88)
*
Orvis, Mrs. - owner famous Equinox House, headed delegation
to meet arrival 1st plane landing Manchester Vermont airfield;
Bill,
Ebby & pilot Ted Burke drunk (G
58) (H 367) (L
76) (P 84)
*
Oscar V. - from old St. Louis family, stayed Bill's
house (B
263)
*
Oscar W. - Cleveland A.A., age 29, told, when you
are new, you should 'take the cotton from your ears
and put it in your mouth, sit down and listen!', wrote
resignation & gave Dr. Bob, slipped, back in 6 months
(D
225-6,229,231,245-7,258-9,270-1)
*
Osler, Sir William - late 19th-early 20th century
Canadian physician (A
243)
*
Osmond, Dr. Humphry - English psychiatrist involved
in research working with schizophrenics & alcoholics
at Canadian hospital Saskatoon Saskatchewan; Bill met
trough Gerald Heard;
trying various methods break patients resistance, help
them through chemical means -LSD 1954 and vitamin therapy
-B3/niacin; worked Dr.
Abram Hoffer, asked Bill work with them, he did for
6 years (B
358-359) (G 54) (L
159) (N 137) (P
368-370,372,376n,380,387,388,389)
*
Otis W., Father - early recovering priest (S
171)
*
Oursler, Fulton - editor Liberty Magazine popular
national weekly 1939; wrote book Greatest Story Ever
Told; Senior Editor Readers Digest; introduced
Bill to Fulton Sheen;
member Board Trustees; helped raise money from friends
distributing first 2 chapters Big Book when unpublished
(A
17, 87, 172n, 177, 208) (G
73) (H 145, 180, 182-183,
194) (SM 11,17) (N
52, 90) (P 223-4, 280, 335)
(BB3 xviii)
*
Oursler, Grace - husband was Fulton Oursler, they
introduced Bill W to Fulton
Sheen (P
280)
*
Ovshinsky, Stan - Detroit inventor, developed cheap
way converting heat directly electricity; formed company
Energy Conversion Laboratories marketed idea (P
380)
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