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Herald News	NEW TITANIC BOOK 'A PEOPLE STORY' Hundreds of books documenting the sinking of the Titanic have been written. Then there are the movies and novels that depict the 1912 disaster. But too many accounts of the doomed luxury liner don’t tell the whole story, said Halifax author John Boileau. "They might mention in passing that there were inquiries conducted by the British and American authorities," Boileau said in an interview Tuesday. "They might even mention there was a recovery operation, which might get a paragraph or two or maybe a page, but generally the books end with the rescue operation." With his book Halifax and Titanic, which will be launched Thursday, Boileau hopes to fill the gaps in the Titanic tale and dispel some of the myths surrounding the disaster....	29th February 2012
New York Times	JACQUES FUTRELLE, WRITER The Author of "The Thinking Machine" and Many Short Stories --- Jacques Futrell is well known as a writer of fiction, having contributed many long and short stories to magazines. He was born in Pike County, Georgia, April 9, 1875, and ...	16th April 1912
	NOVELIST POISED TO MAKE HISTORY WITH TITANIC BOOK W. Mae Kent June 2009 - Vineland, N.J. - In an ambitious first novel, author W. Mae Kent accomplishes a literary feat that has never been attempted before: she tells the story of the only black passenger traveling on the ill-fated Titanic. While Kent’s ...	9th September 2009
New York Sun	NOTED STYLIST DIES IN LONDON Lady Duff Gordon Designed Fashions for Royalty...	22nd April 1935
New York Times Book Review	THE LEGENDS STAY AFLOAT DOWN TO ETERNITY. By Richard O'Connor. 191 pp. New York:Gold Medal Books. 35 cents. --- By BURKE WILKINSON --- Anyone interested in the Titanic disaster will want to read this book, if only to com...	19th February 1956
	STATEROOMS AND SUITES FOR EVERY DESIRE - RIO BROCHURE (PAGE 4) THE plain, unembellished statistics of the NORMANDIE are most impressive.. well nigh staggering in the immensity they represent. 83,122 tons register, 1029 feet of length, 119 feet of breadth, turbines that develop 160,000 horse power, enormous ov...	1937
New York Times	LADY DUFF GORDON, STYLE EXPERT, DIES Pioneer in Bringing Freedom to Women's Fashions Headed Chain of Garment Shops --- COINED DRESS TERM 'CHIC' --- First Split Skirt and Manikin Show Credited to Her---She Had Stores in Three Countries --- Wirele...	22nd April 1935
New York Times	MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT President's Aid Had Gone on a Special Mission to the Pope --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 15.-Major Archibald Willingham Butt, President Taft’s Military Aid, [sic] was returning on the Titanic afte...	16th April 1912
New York Times	THE NIGHTMARE OF APRIL 14, 1912 Review...	20th November 1955