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...back into town and invested all his savings in a wool cap with earflaps and a pair of bicycle goggles. Clutching his package he trotted back to the field and unobtrusively made his way around to an abandoned hangar on the far side of the landing area. From the doorway of the hangar he watched for a chance to put his idea into effect...
Devil's Doorway (M-G-M), like Broken Arrow (TIME, July 31), takes sides with the Indian victims of the white barbarians who won the West. Unlike Arrow, which treated the idea with a fresh story, Doorway is an old-fashioned western at heart, disguised with an unhappy ending and an Indian dubbed in as the hero...
Someone relayed the warning to the Kluxers. They raced back into town and headed straight for Charlie's place. His customers bolted out rear doors and windows. Charlie himself stood stubbornly in the doorway, holding a pistol, as the hooded mob ran toward him. But he did not shoot. A Klansman wrested the weapon from him; he was beaten within an inch of his life, one of his ears was notched with a knife, and he was stuffed into the trunk of one of the cars. The mob smashed his furniture, and then shot up his "casino" with pistol...
...case in point: the artist had given new zest to an already hackneyed theme by putting it in brutally simple terms and by contrasting the plight of the flailing drunk with that of his nerveless, serenely floating hat and stick. The artist was found dead in a Manhattan doorway in 1933; his art still hangs serene...
...Gamma radiation travels with the speed of light and is gone instantly. Heat radiation lasts as long as three seconds (which may be time enough to duck into a doorway or sprint a couple of steps around a corner). The blast or shock wave races a mile in five seconds. After an air burst, stay where you are for at least a minute, and watch out for falling debris. After an underwater burst, the danger from radioactive mist may last for several hours...