Paul I'llandel's Masterful Novel, `Mainsides,
Deals Seriously with Major Social Problem

/1,500 Jews in Jamaica
Spanish and Portuguese inqui - a•
The Jewish Community of sitions settled in the colony.
Jamaica, British West Indies calling themselves "Portugals"
which today numbers some and concealing their true faith.
1,500 persons, dates back to the When the British occupied the =
Paul Mandel has written a re- ficer who committeed suicide had I return to Sims Field,
early
17th century
Se- into
island
1655,
they came out
markably good novel. His "Main- been annulled, who she suspect- I men were to cover that
the news-
hearings,
phardic
fugitives when
from the
the in
open
as Jews.
side," a new Random House ed of being impotent, told Marks that TV and movie sets were in-
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book, is filled with suspense, has of having met a Jewish lad who stalled he becomes disturbed. He
an excellently woven plot, is re- was a physicist, who was tall, wanted it over with. He debated
plete with action and is certain not too presentable, but who about the meaning of "truth,"
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to keep the reader glued to its was different from the boys she while being subjected to the ob-
pages until he has been filled in had known. Unlike the other ligation of pursuing an order to
with all the data about an in- boys who spoke only of sex, the i investigate. "Jews don't buck the
vestigation involving a suicide Jewish lad took her to a concert, ' organization," he now states. He
by a Navy officer.
was serious, insisted on her con- doesn't want to be branded
The novelist is very consider- tinuing her studies. She fell in "wise-guy Jew."
ate. On one of the title pages love with him. She lived with
Howland's mother really got
he explains the name of the him for a few days. They were to him with her plea not to be
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novel: "There were three naval to be married. That's when his hard on her son, Marks admitted
bases near Jacksonville, Fla., in family stepped in. He was in- to Cece when she was with him
1958. One was called Mayport, formed that his father had a that night. But the dye was cast.
one was sometimes called Main- heart attack — "on the spot" — The Negro wanted to go through
side, and one was never called when he was told of the impend- with the story. The TV sets were
Sims Field. There were officers ing intermarriage. He was in- ready. The tragedy was due for
and sailors at these bases, and duced to abandon marriage . a public airing.
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civilians 'in Jacksonville proper. plans.
It's a real drama. "Mainside"
Cece was sorry. "Prejudice is a very well told story about
Like the officers and sailors and
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lawyers" stepping into the case.
it never really happened."
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ar Crimes
Yet, they could have happened and he told Sam "no offense," W
n
he
was
informed
by
Sam,
—at Sims Field—the name giv
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the center of the novel's actions. who was not a lawyer. "I'm the !
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information about the Navy vestigate Howland."
VIENNA — Former SS Col.
while serving in the Navy after
Hermann Hoefle. who was in
his graduation from Harvard—
As the case commenced — jail awaiting trial on charges
_Truing Goldberg says:
and since 1957 he has been on Marks was given a week to coin- of participating in the mass
the staff of Life Magazine—in- plete the investigation. and the killing of Jews in Nazi-occupied
troduces the theme of homosex- novel is subdivided into sections Poland during World War II.
. uality. from which Fletcher date from Tuesday to Tuesday. hanged himself in his cell Tues-
Stacey (Fish) Howland suffered, the appointed investigator said day.
as the motivating reason for his to himself. "This is going to be
The 51-year-old former Nazi
suicide. He has brilliantly intro- a long, ghastly week." The nov- had been named in the trial in
certainly succeeded in mak- Jerusalem of Adolf Eichmann
duced an investigation. the Jew- -
elist it just that.
and was arrested in Salzburg
ish officer, Sam Marks, in ing
Sam
Marks first was told about last January. The documentary
charge. His narration of expe-
riences in the Navy, of officers' Howland's impotence by Cece, evidence against Hoefle. who 1
activities, their parties, their but he got the bare facts about had been an assistant to Eich-
drinking is part of a well told the suicide's being a queen. a mann. totalled 12,000 pages.
story. fairy, from a -Negro steward in charging him with a key role
the Navy who finally told how in the Nazi genocide against
The popular Goldberg
Incidentally there enters into he had come across Howland European Jewry.
twins, Irving and Adolph,
the picture the Jewish angle— with men, how he tracked him
Hoefle, who was stationed in
agree every time on the
the love making friend of Marks, down then blackmailed him. how Lublin and Warsaw in the 1942-
when she first meets him and he was present when Howland 43 period. was accused of per-
subject of Scotch.
sonally selecting Jews for the
becomes aware of his Jewishness shot himself.
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is an interesting commentary on sought to stifle the whole case. also was charged with leading
the complications of mixed mar- There was pressure upon Navy a transport of 8,400 Vienna
officers to end the investigation. Jews to Nazi slaughter camps.
riages.
The Negro question thereupon Another charge was that he
The young lady. Cece Stod-
dard. who became Marks' para- enters the plot. The Negro, also was involved in the de
Irving Goldberg
Lauder's
mour, whose marriage to the of- Coley. asked by the influenced portation of thousands of War-
Partner.
Navy officers to drop the matter saw Jews in a six-week period
Community Theatres
One of
and forget his confession, relates to Treblinka. Sobibor and
his experiences as a Negro. when Maidanek. three of the major
he was hounded on earlier occa- Nazi death camps.
three great
sions and put in the brig. He
light scotch
The
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intercollegiate
has-
asks whether there is a law for
whiskies
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whites and another for blacks. ketball game was played 66 years
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This is where the Jewish Chap-
lain Goodman stepped in to exert
his influence. to try to get Marks
to drop the case. Marks accused
the chaplain. after he resorted
to a parable: "You don't like to
see a Jew fighting the system."
A sermon followed about Marks
— DETROIT —
not having attended a Passover
Seder. about his not meeting
Jewish girls, but still feeling "a
common heritage." And then the
chaplain mentioned the Rosen-
bergs and feeling a "twinge"
over them; the new opportuni-
ties for Jews in the Navy; the
need for Jews to be careful
about stirring up scandals. Marks
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