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22 44 SHIOV by JOAN TIGHE CAPT. W. E. JOHNS would never have thought of himself as a fashion designer

... 22 44 SHIOV by JOAN TIGHE CAPT. W. E. JOHNS would never have thought of himself as a fashion designer. But that's just what he has turned out to be as the 'Biggles' look, complete with .. woolly-lined ear-muffs, cap, flying jacket with fake-fur collar ...

Published: Friday 07 October 1988
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 266 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

Biggles: the movie

... great fun and very action packed. Of course if you have ready any - )f W. E. Johns' Biggles books you might not epprove of your hero getting this science fiction treatment. W. E. Johns -- now d••ad would hardly ...

Published: Saturday 26 April 1986
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 415 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Q 22

... Q 22 in Royal Meath—Recruit W. E. Johns has arrived in the county during the week. Constables Connor and Brady have been transferred to the Depot as volunteers for the Reserve. Constable J. Shaughunessy, Killyon, has effected an exchange with Constable ...

Published: Saturday 17 April 1915
Newspaper: Constabulary Gazette (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

BOOKS RECEIVED

... Chronique Des Evenements Internationaul (Vol. I.). By Marcel Hodem (Penguin Books 6d. each.) Worrals Flies Again. By Captain W E. Johns. (Hodder and Stoughton 5/-.) ...

Published: Monday 30 November 1942
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Chess

... Mikkelson was the first woman to set foot where? i. Is which country does bribery rye most rife? 9. Nho is the hero of Captain W. E. John's best known storks? Which animal is sometimes called the riper horse? ...

Published: Monday 08 February 1988
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

Tally-ho, chaps, chocks away

... Biggles in 1917, has been introduced to broaden the film's appeal on the lucrative American market. The Biggles books by Capt W E Johns. and there are 97 of them, have been sold and borrowed from libraries all over the world, except in the United States. Biggies ...

Published: Sunday 13 July 1986
Newspaper: Sunday Tribune
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 192 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

2.6 O—THE MIGHTY PAWNS A group of inner-city kids form a crack chess team with the help of a maverick

... teacher, Paul Winfield, Rosalind Cash. 3.OO—DUSTY—EPISODE 5 Serial. John Heywood. Kris McQuade. 4.OB—WARRIORS OF THE WIND Animated feature-length Japanese fantasy. 1111-1111GGLES Captain W E Johns' stiff upper-lipped World War One hero in an adventure through ...

Published: Monday 08 January 1990
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 178 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

A new biography claims that the best-selling children's author was a bully, a racist and a snob

... Although racism was more acceptable in Dahl's youth. and was echoed by other children's writers like Enid Blyton and Captain W. E Johns. the black pygmy Ooompa-Loompas. which featured in the first edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 1977, became ...

Published: Sunday 27 March 1994
Newspaper: Sunday Tribune
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 238 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

AMERICA 11.00-SKY WORLD NEWS TONIGHT MX-DEADLY ERNEST

... struggling country-andwestern singer decides to enter a local boxing tournament in the hope of getting some publicity. Captain W. E. Johns' stiffupper-lipped World War One hero. 5.35--Chea. ...

Published: Friday 06 October 1989
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 224 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

Children's

... Ben Oyler, a heamophliac diagnosed as having Aids. Starring Josheu Harris and Linda Hamilton. I.OO—JIGGLES (1986). Join W. E. John's stiff-upper-lipped World War 1 hero in an incredible adventure through time. Starring Neil Dickson and Alex Hyde- White ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1989
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 275 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

Tyope. Co:pp:Z.; Waterford Glass: the-real thing '

... Camel over the Western Front, sending Von Richtofen's flying circus spinning down the sky. I owe Biggles' creator, Capt W E Johns, the certainty: that were I dumped in the cockpit of a Sopwith Camel today I could fly it, loops, dives rolls, chattering ...

Published: Sunday 09 August 1992
Newspaper: Sunday Tribune
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 381 | Page: 18 | Tags: none