Party Time

Not all the victory celebrations blared in the homes of congressional winners. For 34 state governors, last week was also the time for family get-togethers and bulb-popping high jinks.

The traditional scenes blossomed from coast to coast. In Boston it was suave, patrician Governor-elect Robert Fiske Bradford, who had walloped Democratic incumbent Maurice J. Tobin in a record off-year vote. As cameras clicked, Republican Bradford stepped up for the official accolade from his wife, to the evident de light of son Robert and daughter Rebecca (see cut).

In Cleveland handsome, silver-haired Republican Thomas J. Herbert had a ten-days-postponed birthday party to celebrate his victory over crusading Governor Frank J. Lausche. There to cheer him on were his daughter and two sons (see cut).

Naturally enough, the loudest hurrahs came from the Republicans. In New York, as everyone had predicted, it was Tom Dewey by a mile; in Pennsylvania it was James Duff who rode in on the Martin ticket; in Connecticut, James L. McConaughy, onetime college president; in Michigan, racket-busting Kim Sigler; in California, Earl Warren, who had both parties' nominations. In Kansas it was veteran congressional tax expert Frank Carlson in a walk (despite his tacit support of the state's anomalous bone-dry law) over repeal-minded Harry Hines Woodring.

But there were still plenty of Democratic celebrants. Ol' Gene Talmadge was back in the saddle in Georgia. Big Jim Folsom took over in Alabama. Cattleman Roy Turner won in Oklahoma and Publisher-Banker William P. Lane in Maryland. The biggest surprise victor was Colorado's twangy Chief Justice William Lee Knous, who ousted a do-nothing Republican administration.

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