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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...
...Conchita was a problem child, demonstrated quite early that she was no sit-by-the-fire. When she was five years old, she unearthed some ancient skulls, put them on sticks and frightened the servants by poking them through the windows. Once, during a Peruvian uprising, she disappeared from home, was found sitting on a curbstone 100 feet from the scene of a bloody battle. When she was eight, she rode out into the desert alone, required a posse to find...
...natural horsewoman, Conchita out-jumped Peruvian cavalrymen in a local horse show when she was eleven. At 13, her riding master, a onetime Portuguese bullfighter named Ruy Da Camara, taught her the art of the rejoneador-at first with calves, then with more & more ferocious bulls. At 14, she gave an exhibition of equestrian bullfighting at a charity horse show at Lima. At 15, she made her debut-not in society but in a professional bull ring...
Since then, dainty little Conchita has learned the suertes (maneuvers) of the matador, has killed 62 bulls, both as matadora and rejoneadora. On her wrist she wears a charm bracelet, dangling 16 gold bull's ears, presented to her by Manager Da Camara-one for each fight in which she was awarded the bull's ear (for an expert killing...
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...