harry elkins widener

Mrs. George D. Widener, later Mrs. John Hamilton Rice, apparently continued in her public life of society to-dos and charities following the Titanic disaster. I just came on several articles in "Vogue" and "Harper's Bazaar" from the mid to late teens referencing her activities. One, in which...

The Harry Widener story is a little bit different from the one I just heard. "Harry went back to his cabin to get the book and then it was too late his mother had left in his lifeboat". The scene of father and son saying good by to mother as the life boat is lowered is according to this story...