Once, again, Alan ... a really enlightening write~up.
Indeed, I'd been going to say what nice photos accompanying it too. But, of course, I notice you've since "excised" those from view! And then ... it suddenly occurred to me, that the first of the two ladies may, perhaps, have been afraid she'd give the impression of appearing a "cut" above the rest of the Conference Delegates - being the President - while the second, as the journalist assigned to report on the Symposium (Tulip) was, I would venture to suggest, very aptly~named ... with her "two lips" readily poised for the purpose.