Who Won

P: In Maine, Republican Governor Frederick Payne and the entire Republican ticket (including the state's three Congressmen) in the first elections of 1950. But it was the Democrats who thought they saw something to cheer about. The Republicans' winning percentage dropped from 1948's 66% to 61%; the Democrats' percentage (39%) was the highest it had been since 1938.

P: In New Hampshire, the Republicans' liberal, maverick, Bible-quoting Senator Charles W. Tobey, 70, over 35-year-old Candidate Wesley Powell, professed conservative, for the U.S. senatorial nomination, by 1,420 votes after a rugged and bitter campaign (TIME, Sept.11).

P: In 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.

P: In Arizona, Mrs. Ana (Anastasia Frohmiller, 59, popular, thrifty state auditor since 1926, the Democratic nomination for governor over five male aspirants. Her surprise victory made her a heavy favorite to beat Republican Howard Pyle in November;* Arizona has had only two Republican governors since it came into the Union in 1912.

P: In Colorado, popular Ralph L. Carr, 62, governor from 1939 to 1943, the Republican nomination again, by a 2-to-1 margin, over his only opponent, although a foot infection kept him in a hospital bed for most of the campaign. Candidate Carr stands a good chance of unseating Democratic Governor Walter Johnson and pulling his running mate, Senator Eugene Millikin, across the line to reelection.

* Which would make her the nation's third woman governor. The first two: Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, governor of Wyoming (1925-27), now director of the U.S. Mint; Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, governor of Texas (1925-27, 1933-35).

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