Selected posts from the current-events blog Talking Points Memo, if it had been written aboard the RMS Titanic.
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April 10, 1912 05:10 PM GMT link print
THE FAMOUS JUST keep arriving. According to the ship’s purser and longtime TPM reader, John Jacob Astor has boarded the ship.
If I recall correctly, Astor is an old crony of author Jacque Futrelle, who is also aboard. And both are staying on the same deck of this boat. Can anyone verify this?
April 10, 1912 – 08:42 PM GMT link print
A TPM READER CONFIRMS that Astor is aboard. Further, Astor and Futrelle were sighted having coffee and scones with none other than J. Bruce Ismay, a representative of the White Star Lines, and three other men from First Class. Curiouser and curiouser.
April 11, 1912 – 12:44 PM GMT link print
On a personal note, it should be noted that for a brand-new ship, there are quite a lot of rats sharing our staterooms down here in steerage.
April 12, 1912 – 08:30 AM GMT link print
OVERHEARD BY an alert TPM reader: Futrelle was heard to remark that “God Himself could not sink the Titanic.”
April 12, 1912 – 02:00 PM GMT link print
And then there were five. TPM reader JT writes,
Futrelle and Astor are indeed on board, rubbing shoulders with none other than Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon, Lady Gordon, and William Thomas Stead.
Early intelligence suggests that the connection between White Star Line rep Ismay does not end there. Ol’ Bruce is no stranger to Captain Smith’s table and the so-called First Class Five.
April 13, 1912 – 01:15 AM GMT link print
LATE-BREAKING NEWS: The “God Himself” remark was originally a direct quote from none other than Bruce Ismay. An interesting connection, and one which points to at least one highly-classified meeting about the schematics of this ship, occurring in the privacy of First Class. One is loathe to utter the word "conspiracy" with regard to this elbow-rubbing and sharing of expansively optimistic rhetoric. Luckily, TPM Muckraker has uttered it for us, so we do not have to. Go and read.
In other news, icebergs have been sighted.
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