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25-490: (Redirected from Golden One ) Golden One or The Golden One may refer to: The Golden One , a 1961 novel by Henry Treece The Golden One (novel) , a 2002 novel by Elizabeth Peters The Golden One , a 2020 comedy special by Whitmer Thomas Golden 1 Credit Union , an American credit union Golden 1 Center , an arena in Sacramento, California El Dorado ,

50-599: A blue plaque on East Acridge House, erected by the Civic Society in 2010. John Pudney John Pudney was born at Langley Marish , the only son of Henry William Pudney, a farmer and countryman, and Mabel Sleigh Pudney. He was educated at Gresham's School , Holt , where he first encountered W. H. Auden , Benjamin Britten , and Humphrey Spender . He left school in 1925 at the age of sixteen, and spent several years working as an estate agent and studying to become

75-648: A director and literary adviser to Evans Brothers , Ltd (1950–1953) and Putnam & Co Ltd (1953–1963). At Evans, Pudney bolstered the company's long-standing children's catalogue with his own boys adventures, the 11 volume 'Fred and I' series ( Monday Adventure , Spring Adventure etc.). One of them, Thursday Adventure (1955) was filmed as The Stolen Airliner (1955). They featured classic front cover and internal illustrations by artists such as Ley Kenyon (1913–1990) and Douglas Relf . The later six volumes of Hartwarp adventures for younger children were published by Hamish Hamilton. Both series were popular and sold well in

100-554: A hit-and-run accident in the middle that broke both his legs and dislocated his shoulder. The recovery process became a subject for his writing. According to Michael White Spill Out was written "half of it on the booze and half off, and he didn't remember which half was which". In 1976 Pudney developed cancer of the throat from which he died nearly two years later in much pain. He wrote about his illness unflinchingly in his autobiographical Thank Goodness for Cake , posthumously published in 1978. John Pudney's daughter Tessa (1942–2004)

125-653: A mythical tribal chief of the Muisca people Hathor , an ancient Egyptian goddess See also [ edit ] El Dorado (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Golden One . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Golden_One&oldid=1084886903 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

150-573: A surveyor. However, he also began contributing articles to the News Chronicle while writing short stories and channelling his love of the countryside into verse. At the time he was one of a group of young writers, including Dylan Thomas , George Barker and David Gascoyne , that gathered about the well-known bookshop at No 4, Parton Street near London's Red Lion Square , run by David Archer. His first published collection of verse, Spring Encounter , came out in 1933 from Methuen and gained

175-476: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Henry Treece Henry Treece (22 December 1911 – 10 June 1966) was a British poet and writer who also worked as a teacher and editor. He wrote a range of works but is mostly remembered as a writer of children's historical novels . Treece was born in Wednesbury , Staffordshire , and educated at

200-438: Is killed. For Johnny Do not despair For Johnny-head-in-air; He sleeps as sound As Johnny underground. Fetch out no shroud For Johnny-in-the-cloud; And keep your tears For him in after years. Better by far For Johnny-the-bright-star, To keep your head And see his children fed. Pudney published several collections of poetry during the war, including Dispersal Point (1942) and South of Forty (1943),

225-706: The Fabian feminist Crystal Selwyn Herbert (1915–1999), the daughter of A. P. Herbert , a writer and independent Member of Parliament . They first lived in Cornwall in a converted lifeboat, then took a farm in Essex. There were two daughters and a son. They divorced in 1955, and Pudney immediately married his second wife, Monica Forbes Curtis of the Forbes family . She helped him recover from his alcoholism, to which he publicly confessed in 1965 and emerged cured in 1967 – despite

250-475: The New Apocalyptics movement; two further anthologies with Hendry followed. He wrote a critical study of Dylan Thomas , called Dylan Thomas – Dog among the fairies , published by Lindsay Drummond, London, in 1949. He and Thomas became estranged over Thomas's refusal to sign up as a New Apocalyptic. He also wrote Conquerors in 1932, as a way to reflect on the horrors of war. He edited issues of

275-617: The general election of July 1945 , Pudney stood as the Labour Party candidate for Sevenoaks , polling 14,947 votes, or 36%. (The sitting Conservative MP Charles Ponsonby was re-elected, with 46% of the vote.) After the war, he continued to write and worked as a journalist and editor. He was the book critic for the Daily Express from 1945 and with the News Review from 1948 to 1950. He then shifted into publishing, as

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300-484: The 1949 The New British Poets: an anthology edited by Kenneth Rexroth ; but from 1952 with The Dark Island he devoted himself to fiction. His best known are his juvenile historical novels, particularly those set in the Viking Age , although he also wrote some adult historical novels. Many of his novels are set in transitional periods in history, where more primitive societies are forced to face modernisation, e.g.

325-604: The 1950s and 1960s, but they have gone out of print. More significantly, while at Evans Pudney commissioned the Australian fighter pilot and prisoner-of-war Paul Brickhill to come to England and write The Great Escape , which Evans published in 1950; it attracted much attention. He had suggested to the Air Historical Branch of the British Air Ministry that Brickhill should be considered as

350-545: The Stars . Archdale is portrayed reciting Missing to his wife shortly before their marriage, after a close friend is killed in action. Archdale tells his wife that "I try and say things I feel that way sometimes. Sort of hobby" and tells her she's the only one who knows he writes poetry. Missing Less said the better. The bill unpaid, the dead letter, No roses at the end, Of Smith, my friend. Last words don't matter, And there are none to flatter Words will not fill

375-630: The attention of Lady Ottoline Morrell who became a patron. Pudney also wrote for The Listener and worked as a producer at the BBC , where he produced the radio play Hadrian's Wall with text by Auden and music by Britten; it was broadcast from Newcastle on 25 November 1937. While at the BBC he also wrote one of the first plays for television, Edna's Fruit Hat , which was broadcast on 27 January 1939. His first novel, Jacobson's Ladder , describing literary and criminal life in 1930s Soho , appeared in 1938. It

400-461: The author of a history of 617 Squadron . After the success of The Great Escape , it was also published by Evans as The Dam Busters (1951), which sold over one million copies in its first 50 years. Of his novels, The Net (1952, set in an aeronautical research station) and Thin Air (1961) were well received. The Net was filmed by director Anthony Asquith in 1953. The same year Pudney wrote

425-576: The best-known poems of the war. For Johnny evoked popular fellow-feeling in the London of 1941. Written during an air raid, it was published first in the News Chronicle and (with Missing , another poem by Pudney) later featured significantly in the film The Way to the Stars . Two poems supposedly written by one of the main characters, Squadron Leader David Archdale, are used in The Way to

450-594: The end of the Viking period, or the Roman conquest of Britain. His play Carnival King (Faber & Faber) was produced at Nottingham Playhouse in 1953. He also worked as a radio broadcaster. In World War II he served as an intelligence officer in the RAF and helped John Pudney edit Air Force Poetry . Other poetry anthologies he was involved with include The New Apocalypse (1939) with J. F. Hendry giving its name to

475-476: The latter describing his experiences in North Africa . Both collections sold over 250,000 copies between them. One contemporary reviewer noted that the poems were "immediately topical and intended to reach a less poetically sophisticated audience", and that they showed "how completely he has succeeded in combining the journalist and the poet. That is no easy matter, for the one usually swamps the other". In

500-473: The magazines Transformation , and A New Romantic Anthology (1949) with Stefan Schimanski , issues of Kingdom Come: The Magazine of War-Time Oxford with Schimanski and Alan Rook , as well as War-Time Harvest . How I See Apocalypse (London, Lindsay Drummond, 1946) was a retrospective statement. Treece died from a heart attack in 1966. Treece's residency in Barton-upon-Humber is recorded by

525-530: The most important to him. His later work, from the collection Spill Out (1967) onward, took on a more ironic stance but was still vernacular, rather than academic, a period reflected in his second Selected Poems collection of 1973. One of his book blurbs describes him as "a poet who just missed being an intellectual". His final two poems appeared in the Times Literary Supplement a few days after his death. On 30 October 1934 Pudney married

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550-420: The post Of Smith, the ghost. For Smith, our brother, Only son of loving mother, The ocean lifted, stirred Leaving no word. For Johnny is depicted in The Way to the Stars as having been found by a close friend on a piece of paper after David Archdale's death on a raid. He gives it to Archdale's widow, who later in the film gives it to an American flyer to read after another American friend of hers

575-575: The script for the documentary Elizabeth is Queen for Associated British Pathé , which received a BAFTA award. Between 1949 and 1963, he edited an annual anthology called Pick of Today's Short Stories . Commissioned non-fiction (particularly aeronautical) became an important source of income for Pudney in his later years. Among these works were a history of the British state airline B.O.A.C. ( The Seven Skies , 1959), and of Courage Brewery ( A Draught of Contentment (1971). However, poetry remained

600-719: The town's grammar school . After graduating from the University of Birmingham in 1933, he went into teaching with his first placement being at Tynemouth School . In 1939 he married Mary Woodman and settled in Lincolnshire as a teacher at Barton-upon-Humber Grammar School. Their son, Richard Treece, became a musician with Help Yourself and other rock bands. He published five volumes of poetry: 38 Poems (London: Fortune Press, 1940), then by Faber & Faber; Invitation and Warning 1942; The Black Seasons 1945; The Haunted Garden 1947; and The Exiles 1952. He appeared in

625-632: Was the advent of the Second World War that enabled Pudney to find his subject, the effect that war has on the lives of ordinary people, and with it his audience. In 1940 he was commissioned into the Royal Air Force as an intelligence officer and as a member of the Air Ministry 's Creative Writers Unit, a noncombatant role. It was while he was serving as squadron intelligence officer at RAF St Eval in Cornwall that he wrote one of

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