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Tom Davis
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Username: tom_in_pittsburgh
Post Number: 1
Registered: 12-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - 12:45 am: | 
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Picked up "Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic" (1912) in an antique store recently, and have been enjoying all of the contemporary accounts in it. I've also been puzzled by a few entries. For instance: "People are better than they think they are. Only a few months ago public opinion condemned as unfit one of the men who died as heroes and who is today acclaimed. The millionaires are not all bad men as it turns out."
Any ideas to whom this quote was referring?
TIA
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Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 23543
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - 2:13 am: |
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>>Any ideas to whom this quote was referring?<<
Probably Colonel Astor. He was returning home with his very young, very new, very pregnant wife whom he had married in the wake of a public and messy divorce. Quite the scandal at the time. Colonel Astor didn't survive although his wife did.
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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