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Message: [QUOTE="Jeremy Aufderheide, post: 33795, member: 140005"] Letter clears 'blackguard of the Titanic' By Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent Last Updated: 2:17am BST 02/05/2007 He was one of the great blackguards of pre-First World War British society: Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon, the man who not only was said to have bought his way off the sinking Titanic, but then stopped his half-empty lifeboat from returning to pick up drowning passengers. [Moderator's Note: The balance of the article, originally reproduced here, has been removed due to copyright concerns. It can be found [url="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/02/ntitanic02.xml"] here[/url]. MAB] [/QUOTE]