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...CARL SCHRANK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 30, 1955 | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

Root of All Evil. In Omaha, Mrs. John Schrank faced the fact that she is allergic to U. S. paper money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 15, 1954 | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

Died. John Flammang Schrank, 67, Bavarian-born ex-barkeep who shot and wounded Theodore" Roosevelt in Milwaukee in 1912; of bronchial pneumonia; in the Waupun, Wis. hospital where he spent 29 of his 31 mailless, visitorless years in state custody, after being judged a paranoiac. Schrank regarded Teddy's 1912 Bull Moosing as a bid for a third term, decided to shoot him. Schrank's single shot was parried by manuscripts and a spectacle case in T.R.'s pockets. Despite his wound, Teddy made a speech that night, a fortnight later again felt perfectly bully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 27, 1943 | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...Pins and Nedles" would still be a collection of union drama-clubbers on a spree without the brilliance of Harold Rome, who wrote the lyrics and music, and Joseph Schrank, the man behind the sketches. A few of the tunes, especially "I've Got the Nerve to Be in Love," are hell-bent for the Hit Parade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/17/1940 | See Source »

...Lady, deals with romance between a poor but honest young working man (Dick Powell) and an opinionated but lovely young heiress (Olivia de Havilland) with a crotchety father (Charles Winninger). Product of the Hollywood minimum of five writers (Jerry Wald. Maurice Leo, Richard Macauley, Wally Klein, Joseph Schrank), it shows a few deviations from pattern which give it an unexpected and agreeable individuality. Sample: when the heiress (as in The Cowboy and the Lady) adopts the invariable ruse of impersonating her own maid, her father, instead of objecting, happily arranges for her to serve dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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