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Household Names. Temporarily ruined them, anyway. Knox is now a country-and-western singer in Macon, Ga. And Bowen? He finally settled in Los Angeles, producing recordings rather than performing on them. He did right well, too. During six years as a producer for the Reprise label, he supervised albums that sold 10 million copies and singles that sold 12 million, boosting his income to $500,000 a year. Today, his own six-month-old Amos Productions Inc. is one of the largest independent record-production companies...
...contract and a trip to the Class D Geneva, N.Y,, Redlegs. He hit only .277, was ignored in the minor-league draft. Then he started to grow, stretching 4 in. and putting on 50 lbs., all of it muscle. In 1961, he swatted .331 at Tampa, and .330 at Macon, Ga., the following year. Still unimpressed, Cincinnati invited Pete to their spring-training camp in 1963 almost as an afterthought. He insinuated himself into an exhibition game, started slamming doubles all over Florida, and won the enmity of the Reds' regulars by taking a starting berth away from veteran...
...Macon, Ga., the Burns Brick Co. uses two robots to handle 8,000 bricks an hour, a work load ordinarily requiring seven men; each of the robots plucks eight bricks at a time off a table, then drops them gently onto cars carrying them to kilns for baking. General Motors employs a robot to move heated steering linkage rods into forging dies. Ford uses one to paint engines, while robots at Corning Glass Works pick up dinnerware after it has been decorated and put it onto a conveyor belt...
Redding was born in 1941 in Dawson, Georgia, and lived for most of his youth in Macon. During this period another Macon resident, Little Richard, went through his period of greatest recognition, and Redding was inspired by his example. Though far from obvious, Little Richard's influence is perceptible in Redding's style. Redding recorded a Version of Little Richard's 1956 hit, "Lucille." His first professional job was as lead singer for Johnny Jenkins and the Pinetoppers, though he never had a hit in association with them. His first success was with "These Arms of Mine." The first time...
Since the early 1960's, the 26-year-old singer had made a long climb to the top of the Rhythm and Blues charts. He began his career as a janitor at Lanier Senior High School in Macon, Ga., his home town. To pick up a little spending money, "the Big O" sang gospel music at his church, and then for a local radio...