Word: makaroff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Surprise of the show was 15-year-old Joan Dixon of Greenwich, Conn. Miss Dixon, mounted on Colonel Vadim Makaroff's old chestnut mare, Melody Girl, jumped in the touch-and-out sweepstake, competing with nearly 50 professional horsemen, experienced cavalry officers and expert amateurs. Miss Dixon leaped faultlessly over the difficult course, blithely rode off with the championship...
...Gubelmann was not aboard Seven Seas last week but his son Walter was. So was 18-year-old George Emlen Roosevelt Jr., cousin of the President, who has crossed the Atlantic 14 times under sail. On the Conrad were George M. Pynchon Jr., crack blue-water yachtsman, and Vadim Makaroff, son of a Russian admiral and second husband of young Owner Hartford's thrice-married sister, Marie Josephine Hartford O'Donnell Makaroff Douglas...
Married. Marie Josephine Hartford O'Donnell ("Jo") Makaroff, 30, grand- daughter of the late Founder George Huntington Hartford of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., divorced last December from Caviar Tycoon Vadim Stefan Makaroff; and Barclay K. Douglas, 26, Manhattan stockbroker; at Tallahassee, Fla. He is her third husband, she his second wife...
...miles of open sea for Bermuda. The biggest fleet ever entering an ocean race, the 43 sloops, schooners, yawls, ketches included many a new craft, many a famed oldtimer. Newest was Robert P. Baruch's 53-ft. sloop Kirawan, launched only a month ago. Most famed was Vadim Makaroff's 72-ft. adapted-ketch Vamarie, known to yachtsmen as "often a bridesmaid but never a bride," because she so frequently crosses the finish line first only to lose the race because of her small allowance handicap. Last week's finish proved no exception. First over the horizon...
Vamarie, the sleek ketch in which Vadim Makaroff carries on the seagoing tradition established by his Russian-admiral father, was first into port. Since she was scratch boat in the fleet of six that had sailed out of Newport, bound across the Atlantic for Bergen, Norway 19, days before, that meant nothing. Five hours later, a smaller boat, the yawl Stormy Weather, followed Vamarie, over which her time allowance was 47 hours. After a short wait to see whether the smallest boat in the race, the German Stoertebeker, would arrive in time to beat Stormy Weather, the race was officially...