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"I am the one with the Yuletide, know what I mean?"
"What we have here is a failure to accumulate."
"You know. I don't tell many people this, but Christmas is just about my favorite time. Ever since I was a little kid, I always felt like it was my own personal holiday."
"Ahh, smell those Christmas trees. You can keep your "Channel" Number 5, just give me a whiff of the old lonesome pine. That symbol of brotherly love, that centerpiece that all mankind gathers around to share the cranberry sauce shaped like a can."
"No, there's only one person authorized to operate this sack. His big, red, oneness: The Claus."
"Ernest, I'm not much of a morning person. Do you think we could just keep it down to a dull roar?"
"A holiday comedy unlike any other!"
"He's back! And this time..."
"Jim Varney - Ernest P. Worrell, Astor Clementh, Auntie Nelda, The Snake Guy"
"Douglas Seale - Santa Claus (a.k.a. Seth Applegate)"
"Oliver Clark - Joe Carruthers, the new Santa Claus"
"Noelle Parker - Pamela Trenton, a.k.a. Harmony Starr, Mindy"
"Gailard Sartain - Chuck (Storage Agent)"
"Bill Byrge - Bobby (Storage Agent)"
"Billie Bird - Mary Morrissey"
"Key Howard - Immigration Agent"
"Jack Swanson - Businessman"
"Buddy Douglas- Pyramus the Elf"
"Patty Maloney as Thisbe the Elf"
"Barry Brazell - Cab Passenger"
"George Kaplan - Mr. Dillis"
"Robert Lesser - Marty Brock"
"Zachary Bowden - Boy in the Train Station"
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.