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From Politics to Porcelain. Income from the gallery's private endowment (principally Mellon money) comes close to $500,000 a year,* is used to pay the salaries of the executive officers, to finance educational activities (lectures, television shows, concerts) and occasionally to buy new acquisitions. Maintenance cost, including the salaries of 322 civil service personnel, are borne by the Government. These costs come to $1,300,000 a year. In the same period, an average 1,779,088 taxpayers visit the gallery, enjoy a feast of treasures that no Medici prince or Bourbon King ever matched...
...autobiography (The Spirit of St. Louis), gave his $500 prize money to Columbia University's School of Dental and Oral Surgery, in memory of his maternal grandfather, Dentist Charles H. Land (1847-1922). A revolutionary figure in dentistry, Dr. Land perfected a way of enveloping defective teeth in porcelain jackets, and in 1884 invented a gas furnace for baking the porcelain. Lindbergh first made friends with Columbia Dental School when he started parceling out items from his grandfather's laboratory...
...crew, according to Trottenberg, will enter each room once per week. The dry crew will be concerned with dusting and sweeping the floors, while the wet crew will spray and rub down all porcelain surfaces in the bathrooms...
...Peale retired to a big farm, which he soon made a model of scientific agriculture. He started a small cotton mill, successfully manufactured porcelain teeth for his cronies, and urged a device which he had built for taking enemas on anyone who seemed peaked. At 86 Peale died, having served freedom, progress and art to his utmost. In art, his utmost was short of greatness and not nearly as varied as the whole of his life. But he left a fine picture record of great men and great times-times in which, among other things, the artist...
Normally closefisted, Louis showered money on her innumerable "projects"-the porcelain factory of Sèvres, paintings, sculptures, villas, rewards and pensions for artists and builders-a grand total, it is said, of 36 million livres. "He doesn't mind signing for a million," she told her maid, "but he hates to part with little sums out of his pocket...