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January 1972 Issue
January 1972 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Egypt
    Georgiana G. Stevens
  • Innocent Bystander: A Little Night Music: The Curvature of the Earth
    L. E. Sissman
  • Contributors
  • A Farewell to Alcohol
    William Mcilwain
  • A Natural History of the Young
    Richard W. Murphy
  • Uncle Harry: Shooting Partridge, 1941
    Donald Junkins

A Farewell to Alcohol

Of every three men who try to stop drinking at Butner, two fail.

By William Mcilwain
January 1972 Issue
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