Word: cintron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cool-eyed Conchita Cintron, 26, the world's top woman bullfighter got the cold shoulder in Mexico. She flew into Mexico City, ran smack into opposition from the local bullfighters' union: their ring, where she had wrung oles from the crowds eight years ago, was now no place for a woman. Back in 1940, Peru's Conchita had airily remarked that Mexican bulls were passable, but not nearly fierce enough to suit her taste...
Slim, blonde Conchita Cintron, 25, girl bullfighter, paused at LaGuardia Airport on her way from Lisbon to ring engagements in Peru. Born of U.S. parents in Chile, 121-lb. Conchita, who claims 828 bulls in her eight-year career, told reporters that she would not get married just yet because she "still enjoys' fighting too much...
...tradition, killed the first bull in a fight before the cathedral in the Plaza de Armas; the old Lima bull ring, built in 1765, is said by Limeños to be the world's oldest. But never has Lima known a fighter like its own Conchita Cintron, the world's greatest female torero and mistress, to boot, of the art of rejoneo (bullfighting with a short spear from horseback...
Most extraordinary thing about Conchita is the fact that she is an American. Born in Chile and reared in Peru, she is the daughter of a onetime U. S. Army officer named Francisco Cintron (a Puerto Rican) and granddaughter (on her mother's side) of U. S. Archeologist A. Hyatt Verrill, descendant of a long line of highbrow, blue-blooded New Englanders...
Last week, while Hollywood made passes at Conchita, Grandfather Verrill, warming his 79-year-old bones in Florida's sunshine, frowned on his granddaughter's monkeyshines: "She's a darn fool and bound sooner or later to get killed." But spirited Conchita Cintron's only complaint last week was that Mexican bulls are not savage enough...