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While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.

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Dick Cavett
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
Artistic Gymnast
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Gibbon
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Richard Alva Cavett
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