. The Ladies' home journal. ; Of A ( AMMDATH When Stassen was captain of the rifle team atthe University of Minnesota, in the mid-1920s, heand a friend staged a show before a large crowdin the armory one night. The friend fastenedChristmas-tree balls to the buttons of his coat andthen stood in a sidewise position while Stassen,standing 100 feet away with his rifle, calmly andmethodically shot the colored ornaments to was hurt, but a number of spectators, in-cluding the president of the university, nearly hadheart failure. Stassen admits today that this was a foolishly dari
. The Ladies' home journal. ; Of A ( AMMDATH When Stassen was captain of the rifle team atthe University of Minnesota, in the mid-1920s, heand a friend staged a show before a large crowdin the armory one night. The friend fastenedChristmas-tree balls to the buttons of his coat andthen stood in a sidewise position while Stassen,standing 100 feet away with his rifle, calmly andmethodically shot the colored ornaments to was hurt, but a number of spectators, in-cluding the president of the university, nearly hadheart failure. Stassen admits today that this was a foolishly daring stunt,but at the time he didnt think so. He had practiced for weeks with adummy, and he knew he would not miss unless he or his target suddenlybecame ill, insane or blind. This seemed like such a remote chance thatthey were both willing to risk it. Stassen still takes an occasional long chance in politics, but only afterthe same kind of long, slow and patient preparation that he used to put rifle champ, 26 SOVFOTO. Sissen is the only candidate of either party to visit the Kremlin at midnighto/ argue uith Stalin in favor of capitalism. Picture was snapped on Nevatoankment at Leningrad during his 1917 tour of major Russian cities.
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