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...first appraisal since Morgan's death in 1943 showed that he had actually left $16,021,482, of which taxes gobbled up nearly $9,500,000. Morgan had planned it that way. He had given away more than $50,000,000 in driblets ($14,750,000 to the Pierpont Morgan Library, $14,810,340 to needy relatives, etc.) just to keep things "manageable...
...Henry, the Smithsonian's scientists, trying to do "pure research" amid the clutter, kept fairly close to the main stream of scientific progress. They set up an effective weather reporting system before the Weather Bureau, did important work in other fields. Later chiefs also had their triumphs; Samuel Pierpont Langley, the most famous, worked out the principles of the airplane before the Wright brothers made one that would...
Harlan T. Pierpont...
Harlan T. Pierpont...
...Morgan's Advice. In Salome, her most sensational European role, Jeritza literally cast off all seven veils. New Yorkers had to settle for less because the late John Pierpont Morgan, a Met backer, had Salome banished from the repertory at the advice of his pastor. This annoyed Jeritza into singing a concert version of the opera, which was at least wanton enough to give New Yorkers a vivid idea what they were missing...