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Chwatt Aaron (b. 1919-02-05 / d. 2006-07-13) alias Red Buttons
José Ferrer chose Buttons to appear in a Broadway show The Admiral Had a Wife. The show was a farce set in Pearl Harbor, and it was due to open on December 8, 1941. It never did, as it was deemed inappropriate after the Japanese attack. In later years Buttons would joke that the Japanese only attacked Pearl Harbor to keep him off of Broadway.
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Born 1901-02-08. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Roger Conti was a French carom player, specialized in all game modes and inventor of the modern game, because it is thanks to him that billiards knows its current technical form. He had become aware and transmitted the study of the mechanism (the gestures, the different positions of the body depending on the point to be executed), he understood the importance of building a series with different frame games (the 47/2 , 71/2, 47/1). He had approached the design based on fundamental principles. The design is the basis for building a series of different frame games: "The point played is not the one that presents itself, but those that will be." For him, "Billiards, the real, the only, pure blend of sport and art, requiring skill, measure, self-knowledge and self-control, fierce will, training followed by his muscles and his brain, the love of Beauty in the execution of stitches and the taste of Harmony in their sequence ».