Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sheldon wrote a novel in which, for a year, various members of the congregation of a Midwest church tried to do just that. Author Sheldon's conclusions: the Christ-conscious turn-of-the-century man would lend a helping hand to the poor, campaign against the consumption of alcohol and tobacco, remain staunchly pacifist at whatever cost. Sheldon's In His Steps was stuffy in style, contrived in plot, and contained some of the most ludicrous dialogue ever written. But it went to the hearts of thousands. Within a few months it had sold more than...
...chamber in operation, the felt under its cover is saturated with methyl (wood) alcohol. The alcohol vapor diffuses downward, becoming colder as it approaches the dry ice at the bottom. At some point in its downward motion it makes the air supersaturated. In this sensitive layer, cosmic rays or other fast-moving atomic particles leave trails that show up in a flashlight beam as brilliant white streaks...
Died. Robert Holbrook Smith ("Dr. Bob"), 71, Vermont-born Ohio doctor and co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous; after long illness; in Akron. In 1935 Smith met a visiting Manhattan stockbroker, "Bill W.," in Akron. Both alcoholics, they decided that the only hope lay in banding together, formed A.A., substituted confessions, coffee & doughnuts, group meetings and trust in a "higher power" for the escapes alcohol had provided. A.A. now has more than 110,000 members in the U.S. and abroad, is credited with keeping about half of them from the bottle...
College masters in New Haven use a rule of reason rather than legalistics towards women, alcohol, and student initiative. On a weekend night they let parties go well beyond the deadline for women, until the campus cop assigned to the College gets around to the rooms and breaks the parties up. The matters feel it is more important to educate the inmates of their Colleges socially than to keep the Colleges pure. They usually serve purchase at College functions that have a little more than the fruit juice combinations generally dispensed at House dances...
...always faced opposition from the secret societies which blanch at the thought of having over-zealous student politicians trying to control what goes on in their tomb-like structures. Fraternity men similarly fight any proposal for a council in fear that a council might eventually dictate the percentage of alcohol in the Sunday morning milk punch...