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"[voiceover] I have learned so many things, Father. Not just how to make vichyssoise or calf's head with sauce vinaigrette, but a much more important recipe. I have learned how to live, how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch. And I will never, never again run away from life, or from love, either."
"Paris is for lovers. Maybe that's why I stayed only 35 minutes."
"All's fair in love . . . with Sabrina Fair and her men!"
"...the chauffeur's daughter who learned her stuff in Paris!"
"Humphrey Bogart – Linus Larrabee"
"Audrey Hepburn – Sabrina Fairchild"
"William Holden – David Larrabee"
"Walter Hampden – Oliver Larrabee"
"John Williams – Thomas Fairchild"
"Martha Hyer – Elizabeth Tyson"
"Joan Vohs – Gretchen Van Horn"
"Marcel Dalio – Baron St. Fontanel"
"Marcel Hillaire – The Professor"
"Nella Walker – Maude Larrabee"
"Francis X. Bushman – Mr. Tyson"
"Ellen Corby – Miss McCardle"
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.