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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 03, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. February 3, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 23 dutch author rambles eyeing Jan Cremer is fascinating by Marc Wilson staff writer Frankfurt is fellow named Jan Cremer 28, author Painter movie script writer intercontinental girl Hunter and egotist is Back from new Yor City now on the continent of his native Holland. He is travelling across Europe by sports car with an old Sculp Tor Friend and staying at t h Ebest hotels. He will soon return to his studio in new York and this country Home on Cape cod. And he is delighted to have personified the rags to riches dream. Cremer was born in Amster dam at the beginning of world War h. He grew up in a world of prostitutes pimps soldiers Reform schools court appointed guardians and general poverty. To his teachers he was a real brat a major threat to the nor Mal order of Grade school  the age of eight he was sent to a Reform school simply because As he says and of this he is so proud am a  pronounced Yahn says that before he was 20 he had served in the merchant Marine the dutch marines intelligence service and the French foreign legion which he claims to have deserted in Marseille. His autobiographical novel i Jan Cremer and Book ii of the same soon to be published in the . Detail the private scenes of his first 24years. He was a mover a magnetic trans european bum wanderer and sometimes celeb Rity. Jan grew up watching the trials of his russian Mother in Holland. She had some difficult with the dutch people because she could barely speak their Lan Guage. Then after the nazi occupation in world War ii shews abused by the germans when they discovered her rus Sian origin. Jan never saw his father who was also a  Blond gadabout who now dresses much like a College fraternity Man has held More jobs Jan Cremer. Discovered new York than most men Ever will an seen More countries. The tales in his autobiography Are spontaneous. I be been called the literary descendant of Gorky Hemingway Genet and Celine but i be never read an of them he says. In fact i d never even heard of  in the introduction to Cremer first Book his Friend Seymour Krim author of the beat generation writes that Jan has admittedly scornfully lowbrow american paperback  says Jan if i Don t get inter ested in a Book on the first Page i quit . As Well As working on movie scripts he is writing series of general travelling observation. Two Nave been completed j made in .a." and  
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