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...
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