The young man brushed past two other men who were coming down the stairs as he left.

"Nice!" said one.

"Too heavy, but there's something. . ."

"Where?"

"On the bench."

"Oh, Matt. That's old stuff."

"It's experience that counts.'

Marshall recalled what he had just told the heavy young man. "There is a someone for everyone." "Let this one be for me," he hoped.

Marshall smiled as Matt sat down next to him.

"Hi."

BOOKS

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ATROCITY by "Ka-Tzetnik 135633", Lyle Stuart, 287 pp., $4.95.

The inmates of every German concentration camp wore a brand totooed into the flesh of their left arm -the Ka-Tzetnik number. "135633" was the number of one who survived the brutalities and atrocities inflicted by the Nazis on their victims, and who has devoted his life since his release to writing the history of Auschwitz and to recording in photographic detail the suffering of the prisoners. During the Eichmann trial the court heard the testimony of "KaTzetnik 135633," to whom recalling his days in the death camp proved so unbearable that he fainted on the witness stand.

The same man has now written this novel, Atrocity, in which he continues to describe with horrifying intensity

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the conditions in which the hapless victims of Nazi brutality lived and died. What makes this book of unusual interest is that it is related by an eleven-year old boy named Moni, a piepel, as such were called in Auschwitz, a boy selected by the Block Chiefs to be used for their sexual gratification. Atrocity is, in part, the story of Moni's attempts to keep himself in favor in order to keep alive. It is not a pleasant book. M. M.

JUBB by Keith Waterhouse, G. P. Putnam's Sons, $3.95, 345 pp.

Keith Waterhouse, author of Billy Liar which has been made into a motion picture, has written a new novel about one man's psychopathic descent into sexual (heterosexual) bizarreness. Considering the theme, the author is to be congratulated for his ability to combine humor with insight. Of particular interest to this reviewer is the description of the little-understood "queer ad" fetishist; more and more of these oddly suggestive ads are appearing in our newspapers and scandal sheets. Mr. Waterhouse has caught the tone of this infantile group-and the many others who substitute for real human beings.

W. E. G.

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