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"9 ALL-TIME SONG HITS"
"THOSE SLAP-HAPPY SCREAMSTERS GO A'HAUNTING!"
"Here's That ALL-AMERICAN LAUGH TEAM!"
"YOUR FAVORITE FUNSTERS give you more merriment than in 'BUCK PRIVATES" or 'IN THE NAVY"...with their merriest cast!"
"A-HAUNTING WE WILL GO! Your blues won't stand a ghost of a chance...as they top "Buck Privates" and "In the Navy."!"
"THOSE FUNATICS ARE HERE AGAIN! Forget the News! Shake the Blues!"
"THOSE FUNATICS ARE HERE AGAIN! Your blues won't stand a ghost of a chance!"
"Bud Abbott — Chuck Murray"
"Lou Costello — Ferdinand Jones"
"Richard Carlson — Dr. Jackson"
"Joan Davis — Camille Brewster"
"Evelyn Ankers — Norma Lind"
"Marc Lawrence — Charlie Smith"
"Mischa Auer — Gregory"
"Shemp Howard — Soda Jerk"
"Russell Hicks — Bannister"
"William B. Davidson — Moose Matson"
"Ted Lewis and his Orchestra — Themselves"
"The Andrews Sisters — Themselves"
"Milton Parsons — Bus Driver"
"Harry Hayden — Jenkins"
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.