Dr. Seldon Bacon
| Speaker | Dr. Seldon Bacon |
| Event | AA Meeting |
| Location | Unknown |
| Year | 1960s |
| Era | Pioneer Era |
| Fellowship | AA |
| Duration | 41:47 |
| RS Number | RS-G028 |
Transcript
In a few moments, Dr. Bacon will have equal time to discuss his Cadillac. Before yielding the space to him, I must say that speaking as a person whose identification has been with science, it's with great humility that I experience the intuitive and direct motion to the center of an issue that Sister Mary Andrew has given. The love and the friendship that she has expressed, I'm sure, speaking for you, makes her directly one of AA in spirit. That this experiment that she visualized in her effort to experience of going on a bender is a totally unnecessary experiment. I can say to her that some people just have to arrive at this by the hard way, and she has found a more direct route to this formula. Thank you. Now, before giving Dr. Bacon his equal or, as he warns me, greater time, I would like to say that he is one of the really distinguished scientific investigators in the field of alcoholism. One of the people who have pioneered in the study of it on a scientific basis before. It was considered in science and medicine as much of a field of scientific study as it now has become. He was director of the Institute at Yale and now at Rutgers. He's professor of sociology, author of many papers on the subject, and he owns what kind of car, I don't know. Dr. Bacon. Vince, thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, members of AA and guests, it's time for the stooge to strike back. Times have changed, have changed greatly. Yes, I have a wife. Yes, she probably does have some idea about cars, but she doesn't have a chance. But I have a young son, and the question came up about this spider. Now, I didn't know he was interested in entomology. It seems it is a car. Cadillacs are a long, long path. That very old hat. So when we got the second-hand Volkswagen and it's red, it's he who's driving it. And I got a friend to take me to the train, to take me to the bus, to take me to the plane, and so forth. And I may see it, but Volkswagens are all right. And this is a very good second-hand Volkswagen because I got it from, above all things, a professor from Princeton. Well, and on to education, which fortunately…
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