Just when you thought the history of the sewing machine could not get any more dramatic or sordid...
This Sunday's New York Times (4 June 2006) has an article on Sterling and Stephen Clark, heirs to the Singer sewing machine fortune.
"In earlier years they had a close kinship based on a shared passion for art. But in their distinct personalities lay the makings of a classic Dionysian-Apollonian conflict. They eventually fell out over the family riches, and, yes, a woman was involved. "May God curse him on earth as well as in heaven," Sterling said of Stephen."
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