Which reminds me of a story Oscar de la Renta once told me about Daisy Fellowes, the stylish Singer sewing machine heiress.

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Bourne , president of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, in Alexandria, N.

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The Spanish Revival-style three-story main house was constructed in 1920 by Dr. Franklin Atwood Park , chief executive of Singer Sewing Machine at the time.

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From that point on the government seemed to just want to get rid of the models, moving them into storage, sending some back to their owners and allowing the Smithsonian to take some important ones--Isaac Singer's sewing machine, for example, and Samuel Colt's revolver.

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