1.   Bang is a gracious man who nonetheless remembers a brutal time when a knife was not so much a culinary tool as his only means of survival.

2.   A gracious man, Gov. Kirk Fordice won a celebrity cutting horse competition last week and invited a couple of hundred of his new cutting buddies over for supper.

3.   Aamodt is a gracious man whose skiing career is unmatched, even by Tomba, and not just for the number of Olympic medals.

4.   Yvars is a thoughtful man, a gracious man, a charitable man.

5.   There is not a more gracious man than Lou Boudreau.

6.   Was he a gracious man?