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"When someone really wants something, way inside, and they want it hard enough, they usually get it."
"Did you know that people sleep between 3:00 and 6:00 in the morning?"
"Glenn isn't my type. I guess I'm just too practical or unromantic or something. I want a man like Ed who's got a factory or a store or something solid. I certainly don't want a wandering nomad like Glenn Miller."
"What happened to that dream of yours? What about that sound?"
"I wish we could stick together, but, well, I've been eatin' for two years now. It's kinda gotten to be a habit. I don't think I can break it."
"Still got that crazy idea in your head, that sound?"
"Hey, Glenn! Come on back. Mr. Pollack wants to talk to you. He says your arrangement is a pip!"
"If you can get a style the kids like, it can go on for - years maybe. No matter who is in it. It keeps right on going."
"Louis Armstrong: Glenn, come here, Daddy. Beat out one like you did with Ben Pollack."
"It was a time that changed the world. And one man put it to music."
"Their love made such wonderful music!"
"James Stewart as Glenn Miller"
"June Allyson as Helen Burger Miller"
"Harry Morgan as Chummy MacGregor"
"Charles Drake as Don Haynes"
"George Tobias as Si Shribman"
"Barton MacLane as Gen. Henry H. Arnold, USAAF"
"Sig Ruman as W Kranz"
"Irving Bacon as Mr. Miller"
"James Bell as Mr. Burger"
"Kathleen Lockhart as Mrs. Miller"
"Marion Ross as Polly Haynes"
"Nino Tempo as Wilbur Schwartz"
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.