Word: cintron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After her sensational Ciudad Juárez debut in 1952, Pat joined the bullfighters' union as a matador de novillos (apprentice fighter of bulls five years old or less), and became the union's first woman member since the memorable Peruvian Conchita Cintron, who quit the bull ring for matrimony in 1950. In the next two years, she killed 80 bulls in Mexico's smaller rings. As soon as her technique matched her courage, said her trainer, she could move on to fight in the big ring of Mexico City. But those goals seem further away...
Married. Consuelo ("Conchita") Cintron Verrill, 29, flashy Chilean-American lady bullfighter who developed a unique style beginning with rejoneo (mounted bullfighting) and ending with toreo (foot fighting), has killed 800 bulls in her 13 years in the ring; and Don Francisco Castelo Branco, 32, Portuguese businessman; in Lisbon. After the ceremony, Conchita announced her plans for the future: to quit the ring, settle down and write her memoirs...
...Lisbon, Lady Bullfighter Conchita Cintron declared that she would soon give up the razzle-dazzle of the ring for the tranquillity of marriage. Her future husband, she said, is Dom Francisco Castelo Branco, a government official in Por tuguese East Africa. She plans to marry him by proxy next September...