![]() How come the wireless operators blew it so fatally? Maybe they would have had better operators if they paid them more than $5 a week-as Lord notes, it would have taken a wireless operator 18 years to earn one transatlantic ticket. ![]() So he wrote this semisequel, which tackles each of the remaining mysteries about the unnecessary calamity in a methodical, but quite readable, fashion. Some of the dialogue is more vivid than the 1998 film-when a kid sees the deadly iceberg, he says excitedly, "Oh, Muddie, look at the beautiful North Pole with no Santa Claus on it."īut much has been discovered since Lord's original book made waves-such as the shipwreck itself, and a wealth of scientific inquiry. ![]() You might say that Walter Lord provoked the whole Titanic mania by interviewing dozens of survivors and fashioning their reminiscences into the classic non-fiction novel A Night to Remember, which was made into a 1958 film that heavily influenced James Cameron's 1998 epic. ![]()
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