The New York Post reported hearing yesterday "THAT Olympic hero Michael Phelps - besides banking a bundle from endorsements - picked up $100,000 for appearing at an LA pool party for a TV network chief's wife and swimming some laps." True? Phelps' agent, Peter Carlisle, did not return messages seeking comment. I'm wondering if for, like, $10, Phelps would come over and bring in the mail. ... Some fancy-schmancy Samuel Kirk tea silver comes out of the governor's mansion this afternoon for a $50-a-head Flowermart fundraiser at The Center Club. Some City Council members, Comptroller Joan Pratt and other dignitaries will pour - but not out of the historic stuff. That will just be for show and discussion, led by Elaine Rice Bachmann of the Maryland State Archives. "They're very much only going to be handled by me as the curator," she said. The state silver used to come out every Thursday afternoon, from the 19th century until World War I, when Maryland first ladies held open houses. Now the sterling is considered too precious to use even at the mansion, where it's for display only.
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