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"To... uh... paraphrase the venerable adage: we shall kill two birds, with one... pillow."
"[giving eulogy for John F. Black] And so, my friends, we find ourselves gathered around the bier of Mrs... er... Mr... You Know Whom... this litter of sorrow, this cairn, this cromlech, this dread dochma, this gart, this mastaba, this sorrowing tope, this unhappy tumulus, this, this... what is the word?... this... er, coffin! Never could think of that word. Requiescat in Pace, Mr... um... Mr... the memory of your good deeds will not perish with your untimely sepulcher."
"[repeated line upon waking up from his "death"] What place is THIS?"
"FELIX GILLIE---"Why did I ever escape from prison? It was so peaceful there !""
"Your favorite creeps...together again!"
"Every shroud has a silver lining!"
"Where the GHOULS are...is where the FUN is!"
"They put new life in the undertaking business!"
"A grave case of greed gone too far!"
"A macabre romp featuring 4 great names from the Horror Hall of Fame!"
"Vincent Price — Waldo Trumbull"
"Peter Lorre — Felix Gillie"
"Boris Karloff — Amos Hinchley"
"Basil Rathbone — John F. Black, Esq"
"Joyce Jameson - Amaryllis Trumbull"
"Joe E. Brown - the Cemetery Keeper"
"Beverly Hills - Mrs. Phipps"
"Alan DeWitt - Riggs"
"Buddy Mason - Mr. Phipps"
"Douglas Williams - the Doctor"
"Linda Rogers - Phipps' Maid"
"Luree Holmes - Black's Servant"
"Rhubarb the cat - Cleopatra"
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.