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...that the twist is here, everybody's on his own." With a squat of the hips and a throaty gurgle, Hope Hampton, a film star of the '20s who found the fountain of youth, accepted a silver loving cup at Manhattan's Camelot Club with the inscription, "Outstanding Twist Personality of 1962" - an ephemeral accolade authenticated by the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which, in its 1962 Book of the Year, illustrates the twist with a Hopeful view...
...calls himself a "pragmatic" Republican, Powell's greatest political asset is his determination. In 1958, after years of defeat, he had just filed his papers for Governor when a woman approached him in the general store of his home town, Hampton Falls...
...plot is simple enough. Hampton Hurl, the Director of NATCHURAD (the Peace Corps), receives orders from a relative who is Higher Up that he must personally lead a Corps mission to the tiny island of South Embalmo, PEQ. By foul and fair means, he recruits some volunteers, and flies to the island, where, to his pleased surprise, he soon solves an important South Embalmo problem: men. For, as chief Mama Tia explains, South Embalmo has no males in its population. Idyllic problem-solving days pass, until Hurl learns that Noose Publications is planning a feature on the Corps...
Another capable singing actor is Peter Gesell, playing the lead role as Hampton Hurl. Unhappily, he has to carry the burden of much of the dialogue, and his part suffers for it. In the second act, though, he breaks loose from the stale and the hackneyed, and the result is pleasing in at least two songs, "Think Right" and "My Friend...
...enough, the movement was launched by McClure's not with any high impulse toward reform but as a coldly calculated device to boost circulation. Soon the new journalism of exposure was taken up by a score of magazines- Munsey's, Cosmopolitan, Collier's, Everybody's, Hampton's, the Independent, the American Magazine. They all followed the same formula, and they ranged far for new public enemies, setting their sights on everything from New York's Trinity Church to Georgia's prison system...