biography
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Button, Dick
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popular name of Richard Button
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1929– )
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| biography:
| Ice skater, born in Englewood, New Jersey, USA. He was five times world champion (1948–52), and gold medal winner in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics. As an innovative competitor and as a commentator for ABC television he was instrumental in popularizing the sport in the USA. |
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