Time Magazine from October 1944 - Help for Drunkards

Time Magazine issue from October 23, 1944 includes the article Help for Drunkards featuring Marty Mann! This article discusses AA member, Marty Mann, the executive director of the newly formed National Committee for Eduction on Alcoholism that was sponsored by the “Yale Plan for Alcohol Studies”. Also included in this article is a description of the work that AA member, Edward McGoldrick has accomplished with 100 “bums” in New York City. — Here you can read the entire article: Help for Drunkards Two Manhattan members of Alcoholics Anonymous recently shed their anonym-ity. Alcoholics Anonymous is a fast-growing national organization of ex-drinkers pledged to help other alcoholics get well. They count chiefly on constant social intercourse among alcoholics who want to be cured. The two members are convinced that most of the estimated 600,000 alcoholics in the U.S. (there are 3,000,000 estimated excessive drinkers) can get over their drinking.* The two: Mrs. Marty Mann, 39, a tall, smart-