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Dick Button
Dick Button (Figure skating. Born, Englewood, NJ, July 18, 1929.) First of the great post-World War II American figure skating champions, Richard T. Button was the U.S. national men’s champion seven straight years (1946-52) and a five-time world champion (1948-52). Button was the Olympic gold medalist in 1948 at St. Moritz, Switzerland, the first American to […]