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...inherently bad idea of remaking the movie. The nukes continue to proliferate and we've added the potential for ecological suicide to our arsenals of self-destructiveness, so why not redraw Day's moral for a new generation? Unfortunately, the new director is a dope named Scott Derrickson, who has teamed with a morally deaf screenwriter named David Scarpa, and they have made what must be the worst major release in what may be the most disastrous year in recent Hollywood history...
...example, the peculiar case of the 22 travel credit cards held by Powell-committee staffers. Mrs. Emma Swann, a committee receptionist whose name appeared on vouchers for 20 trips, testified that she had made only three of them - and that they were to Miami for "sightseeing and shopping." Russell Derrickson, staff director of Powell's panel, denied making any of the 26 trips charged to his name. Odell Clark, the committee's chief investigator, was unable to explain why his expense account showed him in Los Angeles on a day that travel credit vouchers recorded him as flying...
...Although Lincoln was impatient with the necessity for bodyguards, he recognized a good soldier. Lincoln wrote, Nov. 1, 1862, to "Whom it may concern": "Capt. Derrickson, with his company, has been for some time keeping guard at my residence, now at the Soldiers' Retreat. He, and his company, are very agreeable to me; and while it is deemed proper for any guard to remain, none would be more satisfactory to me than Capt. D. and his Company...
...crew are Electricians Myra Iorg and Thelma Watson, who once worked in defense plants; Carpenter Ruth Wallick, who has three brothers in the Army and says that she used to do all the carpentry around home; Plumber Marguerete Julien; Plumber Laura Derrickson, who once attended the Fort Wayne Bible Institute, now zealously preaches the doctrine of not throwing anything in the "heads"-because if one gets stopped up "we'll have to take out that whole doggone bulkhead...
...mile relay--Derrickson, Dorman, Bliss, Scheu...