Ancillary Characters: Bradford W. Shank
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2023 7:59 pm
I tend think of Beai, and Mason, and Bradford Shank as Townsend's West Coast posse , though I suspect that Bradford and Sarbacher were connected in some other way, as both of them seem to have corresponded with Actress/Producer Gloria Swanson over a period of years. (Papers held in her archives at the University of Texas).
Bradford Shank was identified as his business partner in one of Townsend's early LA ventures, and he shows up again, later, in the story as the person Jaques Cornilion met with on the West Coast, who informed him that Townsend had relocated to DC.
What do we know about him?
He was born in 1910, in Indiana. He authored Photoographic Filters and Their Uses in 1939 ,the first ever book on the subject He spent the war years working on the Manhattan project, and the immediate post war years as a techincal consultant for two productions on the atomic bomb: the 1947 docudrama movie, (The Beginning or the End, and the animated short, Where Will You Hide (1948).
That was the year he produced an updated version of his first book:
His second and last book, a volume of poetry, Fragments, Crystalized Reflections on the Meaning of Life was published by Prentiss Hall in 1959 and did well enough then to earn a second printing. Some of his poems have been reproduced here. They leave me with an image of a sensitive and philosophical soul.
http://primal-page.com/shank.htm
Bradford Shank was identified as his business partner in one of Townsend's early LA ventures, and he shows up again, later, in the story as the person Jaques Cornilion met with on the West Coast, who informed him that Townsend had relocated to DC.
What do we know about him?
He was born in 1910, in Indiana. He authored Photoographic Filters and Their Uses in 1939 ,the first ever book on the subject He spent the war years working on the Manhattan project, and the immediate post war years as a techincal consultant for two productions on the atomic bomb: the 1947 docudrama movie, (The Beginning or the End, and the animated short, Where Will You Hide (1948).
That was the year he produced an updated version of his first book:
His second and last book, a volume of poetry, Fragments, Crystalized Reflections on the Meaning of Life was published by Prentiss Hall in 1959 and did well enough then to earn a second printing. Some of his poems have been reproduced here. They leave me with an image of a sensitive and philosophical soul.
http://primal-page.com/shank.htm