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"Yeah? Well, I ain't afraid to die. I just hate being killed, that's all."
"If those hoodlums ever get off that boat, we'll be smiling ear to ear... with our throats!"
"[singing] You wouldn't dare be too bold, would you? And think that my hand was to hold, would you? And you wouldn't play on my sympathy, then take advantage of me... would you? You shouldn't be quite so near, should you? Or whisper those words in my ear, should you? You can't get romantic; that, you know, takes two. But darling, if I would... would you?"
"Bing Crosby — Duke Johnson/Junior Hooton"
"Bob Hope — Chester Hooton"
"Dorothy Lamour — Sal Van Hoyden"
"Hillary Brooke — Kate"
"Douglass Dumbrille — Ace Larson"
"Jack La Rue — LeBec"
"Robert Barrat — Sperry"
"Nestor Paiva — McGurk"
"Robert Benchley — Narrator"
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.