An eager, insistent clot of people pushes toward her, and somehow she manages to greet each well-wisher with a fractional recalibration of body language that suggests a wordless .
Already on hand, said Foy, were $56 million worth of orders for refrigerator compressors, fractional horsepower motors, ball bearings, magnetos.
At a time when museums are generally priced out of auctions for top works of art, that donation method, known as fractional giving, has been responsible for a substantial portion .