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...election returns from Michigan sounded like a Kentucky Derby broadcast by Clem McCarthy. Soon after they got off, rugged ex-Governor Harry F. Kelly, who lost a leg in World War I, slipped ahead. By midevening, he was out front by 41,000 votes. By breakfast time next morning, young (39) Democratic Governor G. Mennen Williams, heir to a soap fortune and undeviating friend of organized labor, was only 9,000 behind and coming up fast...
...Michigan, young (39), bow-tied Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, an upset victor in 1948, was running into trouble because of his dutiful following of C.I.O. leads. The Republicans hoped to beat him with ex-Governor Harry F. Kelly, one-legged veteran of World War I, who is one of the best votegetters in the state's history...
...sudden death of popular ex-Governor Ralph L. Carr meant more to Colorado Republicans than the loss of their best chance to take the governorship back from the Democrats. Until Candidate Carr died of a heart attack just after the primary election (TIME, Sept. 25), they had figured that his name on the ticket would also be enough to carry able, unspectacular Eugene Millikin into another term in the U.S. Senate. Slipping off to the home of a national committeeman in Colorado Springs last week, the state's Republican leaders settled down to look for a successor who could...
...Michigan, the Republicans' ex-Governor (1943-47) Harry F. Kelly, who was nominated to oppose Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams in November. Williams, unopposed in the Democratic primary, campaigned anyway, for the fun and publicity of it. At week's end, with returns still coming in, he was headed for a higher total than the five Republicans' combined, largely on the basis of a heavy vote in Democratic Detroit...
...decided to give up his House seat to run again for the Senate. He whirred across Texas by helicopter in a series of 18-hour campaigning days that won him a hairbreadth 87-vote margin over popular ex-Governor Coke Stevenson. Since then, he has been a loyal, but not unquestioning, supporter of the Fair Deal; when it came to voting on labor and civil-rights bills, he lined up with the coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats to help defeat the Administration program...