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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Motoring in Cannes, France, with her 2-year-old son Michael John was beauteous Atalanta Arlen (onetime Countess Atalanta Mercati), wife of Novelist Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian). A motorcyclist rammed into the rear of her automobile, was instantly killed. Forced to flee by a mob of Frenchwomen who cursed and threatened her, she was rescued by her husband and a British vice consul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 25, 1933 | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

Born. To Novelist Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen), 37; and onetime Countess Atalanta Mercati Kouyoumdjian: a daughter; in Cannes, France. A son was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 19, 1933 | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

...Author, Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian), an Armenian born in a Bulgarian village, lives in London and on the Riviera. He is married (since 1928) to the beautiful Italo-U. S.-Grecian Countess Atalanta Mercati. Once a struggling writer in London, at 35 Michael Arlen's struggles are over. Smooth, cosmopolitan, he is thus described by a warm friend: "His ties and socks are a gracefully subdued symphony. His barber is the best in town. . . . His Rolls-Royce is at least six inches longer than any other Rolls-Royce. With evening dress he wears a gardenia, one white pearl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black & White* | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

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