Places And Things In AA History
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Bill’s head stone markings
William G. Wilson, 1895-1971: Vermont, 2D LT BRY C66 ARTY CAC, WORLD WAR I. Nov. 26, 1895-Jan. 24, 1971; no mention A.A.
(P 406)
Bill’s Own Story
film shown 1st time 30th Anniversary Convention Toronto Canada 1965 (G 104)
Bill’s paternal grandfather
had serious drinking problem until found religion (P 15)
Birds Feather
airline pilots nickname (G 93)
Black coffee & fruit juices laced vitamin B-enriched (S 11)
Bleeding deacon
remains convinced group cannot get along without him, constantly connives for re-election to office, continues consumed with self-pity (A 122)
Book Avec Les Alcooliques
Joseph Kessel stimulated A.A. growth France & Germany (A ix)
Book of James
favorite Bill,Dr. Bob, Anne (H 356)
Book Sister Ignatia
written Mary C. Darrah, 1992 (S iv)
Borton Group
1st all A.A. group formed Cleveland November 1939, named after T.E. Borton, wealthy Cleveland Heights nonalcoholic (A 21) (D 169,209)
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley book (G 75)
Breeze Spirit
book describes Bill & beginnings A.A., Irving Harris (G 70)
Bronx cocktail
usually concocted gin dry, sweet vermouth & orange juice, Bill’s 1st drink age 22 (B 106) (N 13) (P 56) (W 146)
Brotherhood
term homeless men housed Calvary Episcopal Mission 23rd Street New York; Dr. Sam Shoemaker Calvary Church operated; between 1926-1936 more 200,000 men visited (P 116-117)
Buick Roadmaster convertible
Dr. Bob’s dream car (C 147)
Busto’s
speakeasy (P 96)
Calvary Episcopal Church
headquarters Oxford Group, 4th Avenue renamed Park Avenue South, Bill, Lois, Shep Cornell, Ebby went Oxford Group meetings, ran mission 23rd Street (B 214) (L 91) (N 18)
Cantilever bridge
type bridge Bill identified when young (L 19) (P 19)
Care Alcoholics – St.Thomas Hospital & A.A. Started Movement Which Swept Country article October 1951 in Hospital Progress journal Catholic Hospital Association Sister Ignatia wrote (S 145)
Catholic Committee Publications New York Archdiocese
reviewed advance copy Big Book, approved, asked word [heaven] changed Utopia (A 168-169) (B 286) (N 75) (P 210)
Catholic Cannon Law
forbade Catholics joining other religious law, part reason A.A.’s broke Oxford Group (W 174)
Cavalcade America
DuPont program created lot interest A.A., Al S. involved (G 89)
Cedar Avenue
1st black group Cleveland (D 247)
Cecil Hotel
where Mort J. hired meeting place Los Angeles (A 93)
Chapter 5 Big Book grudge list
variation game truth taught members Oxford Group (W 181)
Chapter 10 Big Book
believed Hank P. wrote it (P 200)
Chicago group founder
Earl T. (G 20)
Chinese job
position director fund-raising American Bureau Medical Aid China Bill applied for, didn’t get (P 259,274)
Christian Science Founder
Mary Baker Eddy (G 25)
Church Street School
school Bill attended as child (P 20)
Circus dust cover
cover 1st edition, 1st printing Big Book, red & yellow (W 179)
Class A member
nonalcoholics on advisory committee (G 51)
Class B member
alcoholics on advisory committee (G 51)
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland paper did A.A. series (A 134,178) (H 62,180,373) (N 83) (P 224)
Closed meetings
started 1st A.A. clubhouse 334 1/2 West 24th Street, originally aimed instruction newcomers which attended only admitted alcoholics (B 305)
Coast Artillery
branch Army Bill served WWI (P 54)
Code traditions
early idea Bill had statement principles (B 324)
Come Back Little Sheba
A.A. played major part making film (P 343)
Common denominators religious or conversions experiences
described William James calamity, admission defeat, appeal Higher Power (P 124)
Common items co-founders
tall Vermonters, political conservatives, drawn spiritism, extrasensory phenomena, interested medical matters, difficulty completing formal education, devised nicknames others, disliked pretense & phoniness, intelligent (P 156)
Conference Charter
substance informal agreement which made between A.A. groups Trustees
1955 (TC 61)
Conference plan
3rd Legacy plan originally set up 1950 Bill & Dr. Bob, confirmed 1955 St. Louis 2nd International Convention (H 113) (MS 23)
Cookie
word used Dr. Bob referring patient (D 146)