The notion of a man's personal honor being bound up with his mustache appears to have survived into more recent times in some areas.

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Her oldest child and only son, John Hancock, has a difficult relationship with his mother. (He changed his name as a young man, preferring to honor his grandfather rather than his stepfather, Frank Rinehart.) He joined the board of Hancock Prospecting at twenty-one and was seen as the heir apparent.

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For Larkin, the honor is well-deserved for a man whose exceptional career was synonymous with the three pillars of the Hall of Fame: sportsmanship, integrity and character.

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One comes away from Mr. Rosengren's biography with a firm notion of Hank Greenberg as a decent human being, a man of integrity and honor, what Jews call a mensch.

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