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...much. Other things don't happen quite so often but do give us something to look forward to. A whole generation awaits the 1986 return of Halley's Comet from its 75 year trip around the solar system. A little closer to home every four years Harold E. Stassen runs for president...
...Stassen is a monument to American perseverance; it's just a shame he didn't know when to quit. His hopeless quests for the presidency have become such a part of American folklore that sports writers often refer to habitual losers like the Red Sox or pre-Moses '76ers as the Stassens of their league...
...Stassen was faster out of the blocks than almost any other politician in memory. So fast that in the early 1940s he was commonly referred to as "The Boy Wonder of the Republican Party." Born the son of a Minnesota farmer 76 years ago, he graduated from high school when he was 15 and got his law degree seven years later. In 1938, at the age of 31, he was elected governor of his state, the youngest man ever to do so. In 1940 he gave the keynote address at the GOP national convention. He served two and one half...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.--A $1.1 million center for the study of world peace, named for Harold E. Stassen, will be established at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs...
...Stassen, who earned his bachelor's and law degrees from the university, is known for his frequent campaigns to become President. He was dubbed Minnesota's "boy governor" when he was elected in 1938 at age 31 for the first of three two-year terms...