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With the exception of Dewey Short, few familiar faces will be missing from the next Congress. Republican Katharine St. George easily staved off the challenge of World War II Cartoonist William ("Willie and Joe") Mauldin in New York's 28th District, and Incumbent Frederic Coudert Jr. surmounted a dangerous bid by Democrat Anthony Akers, World War II PT-boat skipper. It was a bad year for basketball players too. In Kentucky, Wallace ("Wah Wah" Jones, one of the two "clean" players on the bribe-prone 1948-49 Kentucky basketball team, was smothered by Democratic Incumbent John Watts, and Minnesota's 6 ft. 10 in. basketball All-America George Mikan of De Paul College failed to unseat the Third District's Democratic incumbent, 68-year-old Roy Wier.