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...Monterrey-headquartered firms making their way into the world-class league, like Vitro, which manufactures glass. Another is Cemex, the cement behemoth, with $15.3 billion in sales last year--the world's largest producer of ready-mix concrete. It recently made a $12.8 billion bid for Rinker Group of Australia that would be the largest acquisition ever by a Mexican firm and would strengthen Cemex's already leading position in the U.S. market. Such success puts the city on a trajectory pulling further and further ahead of much of the rest of the country. Mexican states in the north...
...Best? Harry Lillis Crosby (his nickname came from a newspaper comic, "The Bingville Bugle") took a while to go solo. He was half, then a third, of a Whiteman vocal group called The Rhythm Boys; the other two were Bing's Spokane, Wash., buddy Al Rinker and singer-songwriter Harry Barris ("Mississippi Mud," "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams"). A novelty act, mixing smooth and hot vocals, jaunty and racy lyrics (the chipper miscegenation song "When the Bluebirds and the Blackbirds Get Together"), the Boys leavened the stately syncopation of Whiteman's repertoire. When Pops went to Hollywood...
Vengeance is S & S's second attempt to market a dubiously documented story. Five years ago, a writer named Rinker Buck approached the company with the story. Buck and his Israeli informant were offered a $60,000 book advance, with $20,000 as down payment. But when Buck went off to Europe to check the facts, he found many discrepancies in the Israeli's account: "He was changing his story daily...
...Though his locks may be thinner, the Groaner's baritone seemed as full as ever as he traipsed through almost 50 songs in the three-hour show. Afterward Crosby reminisced about the first time he played New York in the late '20s. He and Fellow Singer Al Rinker had put together an act for the Paul Whiteman Band. "We had been a big hit on the road," recalls Bing, "but we were taken off the bill in New York because we didn't do well. Paul put us back in the band, just humming...
...Bach Duet" (1974) pairs white-bikinied Rose Marie Wright and Kenneth Rinker. Halfway through JSB's cantata 78, Rinker spits, then, repeating a gesture used earlier as a joke on soft-shoe, grinds that spot on the floor with his toe. That shocked a friend--such an act treated as if just one more jitter/jiggle/jolt...