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...Admiral Stefan Makaroff, commanding the Russian fleet in the Pacific, was the hero of a celebrated marine catastrophe when he went down with his ship in one of the early battles of the war with Japan. His son, Vadim Stefan Makaroff, first arrived in the U. S. in 1917 as assistant naval attache at Washington, returned to help Admiral Kolchak fight the Bolsheviks. Back in the U. S. in 1921 to get a job. he worked for Midwest Refining Co., helped introduce the diamond drill, perfected a system of freezing orange juice in paper containers, organized Makaroff & Co. which became...
...them emerge from the blue blank of ocean, swinging up, one by one, over the hot horizon toward St. David's Head. First boat to cross the finish line in the 650-mile race from New London to Bermuda was Vamarie, owned and sailed by Vadim Stefan Makaroff. On corrected time. Vamarie was beaten by a three-week-old sloop that finished five hours later, Rudolph J. Schaefer's Edlu. A new rule this year put boats over 40 ft., instead of over 53 ft., in Class A. Yacht-Designer Olin Stephens' famed 52-ft. Dorade, winner...
...Thomas H. Somerville's bay gelding Trouble Maker: the 35th running of the Meadow Brook Hunt Cup; from Mrs. Vadim Makaroff's Gigolo, by a length; at Westbury...
...raced to Halifax last week were Simon F. Reibin, Peter Verigin's personal secretary, and Peter C. Makaroff, counselor to the Doukhobors, first of the sect ever to attend a university or become a lawyer. In Boston they were joined by the Doukhobors' Vice President, Joseph P. Shukin, who had also hastened across the continent. They wished to see Peter Verigin II before he went back to Russia to learn about secret Doukhobor affairs from him, get from his lips a last message for his people...