I agree. I guess the story probably was probably covered in thousands of newspapers, so it's not totally implausible that the names "Jack" and "Rose" would show up nearby by chance in one paper, but it still seems very unlikely to me.
Plus, you'd think that the main papers he might have used for research would be from Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and maybe London - so the odds that those names would appear in a paper from those five cities would be much smaller. I'm going with "not a coincidence". ;-)
I agree. I guess the story probably was probably covered in thousands of newspapers, so it's not totally implausible that the names "Jack" and "Rose" would show up nearby by chance in one paper, but it still seems very unlikely to me.
Plus, you'd think that the main papers he might have used for research would be from Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and maybe London - so the odds that those names would appear in a paper from those five cities would be much smaller. I'm going with "not a coincidence". ;-)