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...FLEE THE ANGRY STRANGERS (480 pp.) -George Mandel - Bobbs-Merrill...
...earn his literary bread & butter many a novelist from Defoe to Dostoevsky has turned to the news for a fiction plot. The best of them make enduring fiction out of passing fact by drawing deep on their imagination. In Flee the Angry Strangers, Novelist George Mandel has picked a headline subject-drug addiction among teen-agers-but has given it little more than a gaping doubletake...
Immersed in the jazzy, sometimes obscene argot of the addicts and spiced with lurid episodes, Flee the Angry Strangers packs documentary punch but lacks point. Diane and her friends may need analysis; they need spunk and a spanking more...
...Yugoslavs tried to flee to Paris via the Orient Express. Carrying bread, jugs of water, and pills to stifle coughing, they sealed themselves in the metal battery boxes slung under the cars of the once-famed luxury train, but were caught by frontier guards near Trieste. The government charged that the fugitives were members of a subversive, anti-Tito movement, but in court last week the defendants denied it. Said one, a 21-year-old blonde: she wanted to go to Paris because she was in love with a student who always traveled the battery-box route. Said another...
Hitler's paintings accomplished some chance good: Jewish dealers and collectors who had bought from the youth sold their choices at steep prices when Hitler rose to power, and used the proceeds to flee his hand. In his might, Dictator Hitler grew bashful about his art: he seized all the examples he could find, destroyed most of them. A few he presented to such cronies as Göring and Mussolini...