Time Magazine from February 8, 1971 - Anonymous Ally

Time Magazine issue from February 8, 1971 features the article Anonymous Ally.  This article was published 2 weeks after the passing of AA cofounder Bill Wilson. It gives an in depth description of Bill Wilson’s life and work in AA and the growth of Alcoholics Anonymous since its founding in 1935. The article is on page 52. You can read the article in it’s entirety here: “The more money he made in the 1920s bull market, the more Wall Street Analyst William Griffith Wilson hit the bottle. "Men of genius," he assured his worried wife, "conceive their best projects when drunk." He was right, though hardly in the sense he meant. When Wilson died last week at 75, he left one of the finest projects that a drunk has ever conceived. He was the famous "Bill W.," who sobered up and in 1935 co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous. A gawky Vermonter, Wilson grew up with a crushing sense of inferiority. Alcoholism ran in his family; he was physically weak and a target for bullies. By sheer persistence, he