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...hall: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. As footloose popularizer of the Twist, Checker wants a statue of his likeness erected in the Hall of Fame's courtyard for services to dancing. (He also popularized the Fly, the Pony and the now legendary Hucklebuck.) "This is Nobel Prize territory," he insists. The quest came to him after an appearance on a sitcom. "A line in the script was 'I thought Chubby Checker was dead!'" he says. "It got me thinking." Problem is, the singer, aerobic-tape shaker and Chubby Checker's Beef Jerky maker...
Charles ("Hucklebuck") Logan, a 17-year-old Baltimore Negro, dropped out of school last year because he had flunked the same class twice. His parents are separated. He lives in roach-infested rooms with his grandmother, makes a little walking-around money by washing cars at $1 apiece. His social life is pretty rugged: at a party last year one of his friends was shot dead at Hucklebuck's feet; shortly after that Hucklebuck himself was knifed at another party. He is on probation for receiving stolen goods...
...last week Hucklebuck Logan arose at 5 a.m., bussed to Baltimore's grimy city hall. When the offices opened at 8:30 he signed up as the U.S.'s first volunteer for Poverty Czar Sargent Shriver's brand-new Job Corps. Behind Hucklebuck, to the delight of Job Corps officials who had feared that the corps' first recruiting campaign would draw an embarrassingly puny turnout, came well over 400 more kids from Baltimore. Almost all were school dropouts, few had steady jobs, and about one-third had had trouble with the police...
Idea & Idealism. There was no guarantee that Hucklebuck or any of the other volunteers would actually be accepted; the Job Corps says it will not, for example, sign up serious criminal offenders or narcotics addicts. Endowed with $150 million of the $784,200,000 first-year appropriation for President Johnson's war on poverty, the corps is essentially geared for boys and girls aged 16 to 21 who have not finished high school, have no decent job, and whose academic skills are hopelessly stuck at fourth-to seventh-grade levels. Shriver hopes to get 40,000 such youngsters enlisted...
...Twist Her (Bill Black's Combo; Hi Records). One of the reigning twist bands demonstrates how it's done in a dozen numbers (Hucklebuck, Royal Twist, Twisteroo) that sound as different from one another as a buzz saw played at different speeds. But bestseller bound...