>I am working as editor on a major study of an Irish importer/wholesaler of >whiskey and wine called Findlaters and came across an issue or two of your >journal. The topic interested me specifically since the penultimate Managing >Director of the firm (1938-62) basically drank himself to death (starting it >is thought after the death of his 10 year old daughter in 1944). He became a >two bottles of gin man. >The interesting thing is that he never had trouble finding people >(fellowbusinessmen) to drink with. Almost a culture of alcohol. Is there >anything on this almost suicidal mix of business and alcohol that might >illuminate this sad story? > >Tony Farmar > Tony, Bill W. was a businessman of sorts. His story might be a start. In this connection, BTW, there is a new and revealing biography of Bill out: Francis Hartigan, _Bill W. : A Biography of Alcoholic Anonymous Cofounder Bill Wilson_, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Ron Roizen