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Archive Home > 2009 > February > 22 > Bullfighting’s ‘Goddess’

Bullfighting’s ‘Goddess’

Conchita Cintron ‘made an indelible mark’ on her chosen profession

By Bruce Weber / The Bulletin
February 22, 2009

A headline in The New York Sun on Sept. 4, 1940, captured accurately, albeit with amused condescension, the startling anomaly embodied by Conchita Cintron: “She’s a Timid Blue Eyed Girl But — She Kills Bulls Without Qualms.”

Cintron was 18 years old then....

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