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"I am the same Sam Grunion who solved the international uranium-mining swindle. Scotland Yard was baffled; the FBI was baffled. They sent for me and the case was solved immediately: I confessed."
"Here's another Broadway hopeful: Faustino the Great. For 20 years he was an organ grinder with a monkey. Then one day the monkey went on strike. He wanted shorter hours and longer bananas."
"Mackinaw, you know I have a full record of the case, and tonight at the opening of the play you MAY have the solution, but when the curtain rises, Madam Egelichi will be in the front box, and sitting next to her will be Count B'ullabaisse - but if you take away the count's silk hat, his opera cloak and his full dress suit you'll have ME, shivering in my underwear."
"Hey, that's not my suit you're pulling."
"[to Madam Egelichi] Oh, no. I'm not gonna follow you and get shot. If I was half-shot I'd follow you."
"Look-a, Mr. Lyons, I know you wanna make a good impression, but-a please - don't play better than me."
"New Musical Girlesque!!!"
"Harpo Marx — Harpo"
"Chico Marx — Faustino the Great"
"Groucho Marx — Detective Sam Grunion"
"Vera-Ellen — Maggie Phillips"
"Ilona Massey — Madame Egelichi"
"Marion Hutton — Bunny Dolan"
"Paul Valentine — Mike Johnson"
"Raymond Burr — Alphonse Zoto"
"Bruce Gordon — Hannibal Zoto"
"Melville Cooper — Lefty Throckmorton"
"Leon Belasco — Mr. Lyons"
"Marilyn Monroe — Grunion's Client"
"Eric Blore — Mackinaw"
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.