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"Grace, give me J. Edger on the phone! Drake, get me the chief of police! Asp, get me Walter Winchell! Punjab! Get me Willam Randolph Hearst! And Saunders, get me a drink."
"[singing] Some women are drippin' with diamonds / Some women are drippin' with pearls / Lucky me, lucky me, look at what I'm drippin' with / Little girls!"
"Little girls, little girls, everywhere I turn I can see them."
"Do I hear happiness in here?"
"[to Rooster about Annie] She may be a mean, rotten little orphan, but I'm not gonna let you kill her!"
"Grace: You love money and power and capitalism? You know they're never going to love you back..."
"Punjab: Buddha says "A child without courage is like a night without stars!""
"Aileen Quinn - Ann Marie "Annie" Bennett Warbucks"
"Albert Finney - Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks"
"Carol Burnett - Miss Agatha Hannigan"
"Tim Curry - Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan"
"Bernadette Peters - Lily St. Regis"
"Ann Reinking - Grace Farrell"
"Edward Herrmann - Franklin D. Roosevelt"
"Lois de Banzie - Eleanor Roosevelt"
"Geoffrey Holder - Punjab"
"Roger Minami - The Asp"
"Toni Ann Gisondi - Molly"
"Rosanne Sorrentino - Pepper"
"Lara Berk - Tessie"
"April Lerman - Kate"
"Robin Ignico - Duffy"
"Lucie Stewart - July"
"Peter Marhsall - Bert Healy"
"Irving Metzman - Mr. Jules Bundles"
"Ken Swofford - Weasel"
"I. M. Hobson - Drake"
"Colleen Zenk - Mavis Ray"
"Lu Leonard - Mrs. Pugh"
"Victor Griffin - Saunders"
"Jerome Collamore - Frick"
"Jon Richards - Frack"
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.