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...research vessels already commissioned. Throughout the week, weather satellites scanned the atmosphere for hurricanes, while "Project Stormfury's" planes stood ready to try diverting any budding tropical storm. All these related functions-and many more-are now controlled and operated by the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), the bounciest baby bureaucracy in Big Government Science...
...State hand remembers why: "He was one of the bounciest and most ebullient men I have known. There was never any side to Mike, and that was refreshing in the field of diplomacy." Pearson was frequently nettled by official Washington's offhand manner to sturdily independent Canada, but just as often amused-as when he left Washington, D.C., with President Harry Truman's farewell: "I don't know why the King doesn't leave you here...
...girls as a group are a bouncy crew, with Dulcie the bounciest, Fay (Abigail Liggett) and Nancy (Alexandra Hilford) lively enough, and Maisie (Margaretha Walk) not quite with it though she tries very hard. The boys--Robert Hatfield, David Kopelman, Norman Fox and Herbert Parsons--have a grand time mostly playing themselves and dancing with the girls; but on the whole they failed to impress...
...jazzy Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra by Walter Piston reached a peak of musical quality, performance, and balance. Unlike many pianists, Robert Freeman did not make a fetish of hard-driving rhythms. Instead, he imparted a lyrical feeling to even the bounciest passages which toned down the score's over-hectic elements and gave the listeners a sense of proportion that otherwise might have been lacking...
...Golden State (by Samuel Spewack; produced by Bella Spewack) is a hack comedy that sinks even that bounciest and most cork-brained of comediennes, Josephine Hull. Playwright Spewack sets out to kid California's well-known ambition to be El Dorado when, it grows up. Actress Hull plays a hopeful landlady who, through a Spanish ancestor, lays property claims to all of Beverly Hills. Ernest Truex plays a hopeful prospector who thinks he discovers gold in Miss Hull's back yard and makes frenzied forty-niners of the other roomers...