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"For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf? Didn't you hear 'em? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding!"
"This is a celebration. Midge is getting a shot at the title, and he's got a new manager... a blonde."
"You know what a "Golem" is? I think I knew all the time I was building one."
"Kirk Douglas - Michael "Midge" Kelly"
"Marilyn Maxwell - Grace Diamond"
"Arthur Kennedy - Connie Kelly"
"Paul Stewart - Tommy Haley"
"Ruth Roman - Emma Bryce"
"Lola Albright - Palmer Harris"
"Luis Van Rooten - Jerome "Jerry" Harris"
"Harry Shannon as Lew Bryce"
"Esther Howard - Midge Kelly's mother"
"John Daheim - Johnny Dunne"
"This is the only sport in the world where two guys get paid for doing something they'd be arrested for if they got drunk and did it for nothing."
"Every woman goes for a Champion."
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.