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"[At a costume ball, to a police sergeant costumed as a zebra who drinks from the punch bowl] Any more behaviour like this and I'll have your stripes!"
"[having stepped on and broken the violin] Oh well, if you've seen one Stradivarius, you've seen them all."
"David Niven - Sir Charles Lytton"
"Peter Sellers - Inspector Jacques Clouseau"
"Robert Wagner - George Lytton, Sir Charles' nephew"
"Capucine - Simone Clouseau, Inspector Clouseau's wife"
"Claudia Cardinale - Princess Dala"
"Brenda De Banzie - Angela Dunning"
"Colin Gordon - Tucker"
"John Le Mesurier - Defense attorney"
"James Lanphier - Saloud"
"Guy Thomajan - Artoff"
"Michael Trubshawe - Felix Townes, novelist"
"Riccardo Billi - Aristotle Sarajos, Greek shipowner"
"Meri Welles - Monica Fawn, Hollywood starlet"
"Martin Miller - Pierre Luigi, photographer"
"Fran Jeffries - ski lodge singer"
"You only live once... so see the Pink Panther twice!!!"
"The star-studded international cast of the year sparkling in the wackiest, most wonderful sport - on the glamorous Italian Riviera where the jet-set swings, sways and plays..."
"A Madcap Frolic Of Crime and Fun"
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.