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"Come on. Let's go to college and get some knowledge."
"Listen, Cockroach, if you don't stop following me around and bugging me, I'm gonna stuff your nauseating carcass into one of those artillery pieces, pull the lanyard and blow you out to sea. Now do you understand me?"
"Well, sir, it's got to be one of two things. Either you're lying, in which case there'd be no whiskey in that tube- or you're right. I did it all, just as you say. Now, if I was such a Machiavellian, crafty, conniving character as all that, would I be so stupid as to leave whiskey in that tube for you to come along and find it? I don't think so, sir. It stands to reason that thing would be washed with loving care."
"I can't sign that statement. Because there's something in it, that isn't true at all. Sure, Georgie was framed- my hands are clean! Gatt beat him up, those freshmen poured whiskey in him, and Koble carried him down to the quadrangle. And who would believe all this bunk, anyhow? How could I make Gatt beat up Georgie? He's twice my size! And these freshmen, did I hold a pistol to their heads and make them do this? DID I?! Oh, no, no. They're just as guilty as I am."
"I'll be back! I'll get you guys! You can't do this to Jocko DeParis!"
"It's wrong to blame this school, Robert. It ain't the school's fault about Jocko. Shoot, that boy'd been the way he is no matter where he'd gone."
"Well, it's easy for you to talk, 'cause you're plannin' on leavin' anyhow. How about the rest of us? Me and Rog's got a lot to lose. Gonna get s. Credit's gonna be no good at another school. Three years we've spent here ain't gonna amount to a doggone thing."
""THE STRANGE ONE" IS A STRANGE ONE! (original print ad - all caps)"
"You'll never forget BEN GAZZARA as the louse, "Jocko""
"The Most Fascinating Louse You Ever Met!"
"Ben Gazzera - Cadet Sgt. Jocko DeParis"
"Pat Hingle - Cadet Harold "Harry" Koble"
"Peter Mark Richman - Cadet Col. Laurie Lorger"
"Arthur Storch - Cadet Simmons"
"Paul E. Richards - Cadet Perrin "Cockroach" McKee"
"Larry Gates - Maj. George Avery Sr."
"Clifton James - Col. M.N. Ramsey"
"Geoffrey Horne - Cadet George Avery Jr."
"James Olson - Cadet Roger Gatt"
"Julie Wilson - Peonie (aka "Rosebud")"
"George Peppard - Cadet Robert Marquales"
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.