TIME 27 novembre 1950
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.
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