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.

 

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THIS IS THE HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER "LIBERTY" MAGAZINE...IT IS MENTIONED IN "AA COMES OF AGE" SEVERAL TIMES...BILL ELUDES IN OUR LITERATURE THAT THIS "PIECE" HELPED MUCH IN KEEPING AA AFLOAT IN LATE 1939-1941, THAT IT HELPED TO SELL "SEVERAL" HUNDRED BOOKS AND FINALLY BROUGHT IN AN INCOME WHEREBY THEY COULD START PAYING "RUTH" ....THIS WAS VERY SIGNIFICANT TO AA BEING ABLE TO SUSTAIN DURING THE PERIOD PRIOR TO THE FAMOUS "JACK ALEXANDER" ARTICLE IN THE Sat Evening Post..