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.
Svelte Eve Curie, daughter of Radium Discoverers Pierre and Marie, sister of fellow-traveling Irene, arrived in Manhattan to start an eleven-week lecture...
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