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"[about the saloon customers] The longer they wait, the better they like it."
"[to Frenchy, as she throws bottles at him] You sure have a knack of makin' a stranger feel right at home, ma'am. Nice knowin' ya."
"Nobody's gonna set themselves up above the law around here. You understand? I've got somethin' to say to you. I think maybe I can illustrate it a little better if I told you a story. I used to have a friend that was an Opry singer. But he went into the cement business. And one day, he fell into the cement. And now he's the cornerstone of the post office in St. Louis, Missouri. He should have stuck to his own trade. You'd better stick to yours."
"They make the fighting sinful west blaze into action before your eyes!"
"THE GREATEST CAST EVER CORRALLED for a frontier drama like you've NEVER seen in all your born days!"
"Marlene Dietrich - Frenchy"
"James Stewart - Thomas Jefferson "Tom" Destry, Jr."
"Mischa Auer - Boris Callahan"
""Charlie" Winninger - "Wash" (Washington Dimsdale)"
"Brian Donlevy - Kent"
"Allen Jenkins - "Gyp" Watson"
"Warren Hymer - "Bugs" Watson"
"Irene Hervey - Janice Tyndall"
"Una Merkel - Lily Belle, "Mrs. Callahan""
"Billy Gilbert - "Loupgerou""
"Samuel S. Hinds - Judge Slade"
"Jack Carson - Jack Tyndall"
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.