Playing Catch-Up

One day, while covering Franklin Roosevelt’s 1932 train tour, Associated Press reporter Lorena Hickok was left behind at a railroad station. She quickly hailed a cab and told the driver to catch up with the train. At Hickok’s insistence, he drove so fast that the taxi caught fire. 

Source: Jonathan Darman, Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President (New York: Random House, 2022), 301