Sailor

In 1904, 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 one of the biggest U. S. caviar importing companies, married A. & P. Heiress Josephine Hartford ("Jo") O'Donnell.

Last week 42-year-old Vadim Stefan Makaroff upheld family tradition by becoming the hero of a marine contest quite different from the sort in which his father specialized. Sailing his beautiful 72-ft. mahogany ketch Vamarie, he won the annual St. Petersburg-to-Havana yacht race (284 mi.) with an elapsed time of 58 hr. 53 min.

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