Paul Johnson

And Another Thing | 14 March 2009

When the ferocious Conchita rode the ring and bulls trembled

issue 14 March 2009

With one of those tremendous jolts to memory, I was taken back 60 years by the death of Conchita Cintron. She was the greatest of all women bullfighters and I was incredibly lucky to see her, in 1950, for that was the last year she was in the ring. Where did this take place? Was it in La L

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