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The Ordeal of Robert Hutchings Goddard

SAVING FACE

The first transcontinental auto trip began with a casual wager and ended sixty-five bone-jarring days later

The mob was at the palace gates; her husband was already a prisoner; the servants were stealing imperial treasures before her eyes; Empress Eugénie turned to the one man in France she could trust—Dr. Thomas W. Evans of Lancaster, Pa.

For more than a century, the august members of this San Francisco body have enjoyed a unique, all-male midsummer night’s dream