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For a boy of 12

... For a boy of 12 Now to the Stars CAPT. W; E. JOHNS The new space-ship adventure by the author ot “Biggies.” (116'net) ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1956
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 23 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Unbiased Biggles takes off

... just ridicool ulous to bowdlerise it.” . . W E Johns said in 1948: Caroline Thomas, editor uj oo} o hoy to be a man. I of the series by Red Fox of Sineh eportsmenshi Random House, said: “It's sording % e Bfifi;fl e *‘3“,{& IS idea decent ...

Published: Friday 10 July 1992
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 222 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

STORIES FOR BOYS

... many of them warrant a second reading. P. G. Wodhouse, Hilton Brown, L. A. G. Strong, Janet M‘Neill, the Ulster writer, W. E. Johns and Conan Doyle are names to stir anybody’s imagination, ’ ...

Published: Monday 20 May 1957
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 69 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Biggles flies again THE extraordinary exploits of famous fictional fiyer Biggles are to be retold for a new ..

... be retold for a new generation of enthusiasts. The RAF is marking the centenary of the birth of Biggles' creator Captain W E Johns with a special exhibition from February 2to May 2at the RAF Museum at Hendon, north-west London. Visitors will see a life-size ...

Published: Thursday 24 December 1992
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 75 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Calling all Biggles fans

... to put together a collection of books by Capt W E Johns, featuring the characters Biggles, Worrals and Gimlet. If any of your readers have a similar interest in other authors and/or have any unwanted Johns’ titles in hardbook or paperback, I will be pleased ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1993
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 73 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A FEW SUGGESTIONS SHORT STORIES from the “New Yorker”...' 15/- ' CHILDREN OF THE ARCHBISHOP” by Norman Collins ..

... Dickens 10/6 THE TURPS” by Damon Runyon 12/6 ‘GAPE ROW” by Agnes Romilly White . 7/6 tl i? dre , Annuals and Books by W. E. Johns, Emd Blyton and Arthur Ransome. OPEN SATURDAYS TILL SIX We sell and exchange Book Tokens and TqUiee. McLEAN, Bookseller ...

Published: Tuesday 04 December 1951
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 90 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Illustration

... ‘The restaurant walls are decked with pictures of “Piggles—an airborne :i‘g in flying goggles that doubtfi- wmnvo Captain W. E. Johns turning in his grave. And “Swiny Todd—an evil-eyed pig bnndnhm, a cut throat razor and “Piggacco™ wagfiili‘ng a paintbrush ...

Published: Tuesday 01 March 1983
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 122 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Hodder & Stoughton

... Stoughton. Biggles on l}ntery Island,”’ by Cu‘)uln W. E. Johns, 8s 6d: * The Golden Lantern,” by Thurman Warriner, 12s 6d: ** The Girl in the Fog,” by Barbara Beauchamp, 12s 6d: ** The Bad Summer' by John Appleby, 13= 6d: ** Island Cricketers.”” by Clyde ...

Published: Tuesday 05 August 1958
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 140 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LINEN HALL LIBRARY

... Mr. John Cowser, M.A, suggested that the first policy the library should be the building up the children’s section. Childrens books one generation, he said, were not the children’s books of another, and writers like Enid Blyton and Captain W. E. Johns ...

Published: Friday 28 May 1954
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 182 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Chocks away! Biggles is taking to the air at last on the beig screen. Red-blood British actor Neil Dickson is

... aviation journalist. Captain W. E. Johns was, however, no armchair romancer, but a seasoned airman who experienced the thrills and terror of aerial warfare. On Monday Se})tember 16, 1918, a pack of Fokker DVIIIs swooped down on Johns' heavy bombef, raking it ...

Published: Tuesday 19 February 1985
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 217 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

STORY (Fontana, £1.25)

... of Capt W. E. John's i ® Heinrich Himmler — architect of torture in the4o’'s a Wr%}(( A ™ ,._,, i ”..;1‘ L »v*t. l :.'.;’,,. ' s iy n ' w, § . . 1 B ‘_:.-.‘ y: e F ! | ‘N - A . . NN W A ...

Published: Thursday 14 December 1978
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 232 | Page: 5 | Tags: none