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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...
...week Bermudians saw 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...
...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...
...only son of the late great Engineer Washington Augustus Roebling (Brooklyn Bridge); and one Helen Price, 41; at Rochester, N. Y. Seeking Divorce, Nadjeda de Braganza Dorozynski, daughter of Princess Anita Stewart Miguel de Braganza, Manhattan socialite, and the late pretender to the throne of Portugal; from one Vadim Dorozynski, son of a sometime Russian naval officer; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: incompatibility. Sued. William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry., and his wife Laura; by Rev. Ulysses Grant Warren, of Corning, N. Y., for $200,000. Charge: alienation of the affections of Mr. Warren's wife...
Chernoff. The next witness for the plaintiff was Vadim Chernoff, a blond Russian expatriate, a painter of ikons. Excitedly, with an accent like a musical comedian, he dilated for an hour on Renaissance pigmentation, explained both how and what colors were used. He called the Hahn painting "translucent," and the Louvre painting "dirty." Technically he was wise, but Lawyer Levy confounded him with questions on art history and showed that M. Chernoff's advice had rarely, if ever, been sought in weighty controversy. Sir Joseph chuckled as the Chernoff lecture began. Later he gazed into a newspaper with obvious...