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43 AT 23, Alma Angela "* Cogan has travelled far and fast," declared the Radio Times last year, and it could be that they were referring to the new American car in Rio Red. and Smoky White which she had bought only a few weeks before. Owning that car (here seen outside the BBC) was, she admits, a life-long ambition. Alma, who is being heard in the current Take It From Here series from the ZB stations on Sunday nights, is quite definite that her name "really is Alma," and adds: "I think I was named after a film star." Her success has brought her a steadily growing fan mail. Now 800 letters a week, it . includes many proposals of marriage. "They must run into hundreds
by now, mostly from servicemen overseas," she says. "I suppose they think they’te pretty safe over there." Alma’s bubbling, \exuberant voice has been
heard -in some of the catchiest tunes ever broadcast. One of the most recent of these had the intriguing title "Never Do a Tango With An Eskimo." i i ee ».
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 872, 20 April 1956, Page 19
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