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"Bad news sells best. 'Cause good news is no news."
"I've done a lot of lying in my time. I've lied to men who wear belts. I've lied to men who wear suspenders. But I'd never be so stupid as to lie to a man who wears both belt and suspenders."
"It's a good story today. Tomorrow, it'll be yesterday's news and they'll wrap a fish in it."
"I can handle big news and little news. And if there's no news, I'll go out and bite a dog."
"When they bleached your hair, they must have bleached your brain too."
"You know what's wrong with New Mexico, Mr. Wendel? Too much outdoors."
"How'd you like to make a thousand dollars a day, Mr. Boot? I'm a thousand-dollar-a-day newspaperman. You can have me for nothing."
"I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons."
"I've met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my time, but you--you're twenty minutes."
"Kirk Douglas - Charles 'Chuck' Tatum"
"Jan Sterling - Lorraine Minosa"
"Robert Arthur - Herbie Cook"
"Porter Hall - Jacob Q. Boot"
"Frank Cady - Mr. Federber"
"Richard Benedict - Leo Minosa"
"Ray Teal - Sheriff"
"Lewis Martin - McCardle"
"John Berkes - Papa Minosa"
"Frances Dominguez - Mama Minosa"
"Gene Evans - Deputy Sheriff"
"Frank Jaquet - Sam Smollett"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.