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...pads of cartilage that lie between the thigh and shinbone (see diagram), was torn and rolled back in a tight wad. This explained why Namath had not been able to straighten his leg completely: just as a folded newspaper stuck between a door and its jamb will keep the door ajar, so the ball of cartilage kept Na-math's knee hinge from swinging all the way as he tried to extend his leg. The X rays showed no other damage-only a small cyst, of no importance...
...interview begun when Biceps Boy (212 Ibs.) Chuck Krauser, Mr. California, took exception to Mickey's remarks and belabored Mr. Universe's face, mousing his left eye and dazing him. Mr. Universe, blue suede shoes splattered with his own blood, hung on to a door jamb. Crowed Mae of the groggy Adonis: "He's dangerous. You can see what he's trying to do ... I'm an institution! You can't drag an institution down!" Then Mae pointed to her chaise longue and barked at Mickey: "Lay down! Go on, lay down!" Whimpered...
...Prison. "When puzzle locks [i.e., combination locks] were first used a century ago," said Mosler, "crooks devised the 'drag,' a powerful screw to crush the walls around the lock. When the walls were strengthened, they took to the jackscrew to force wedges between the door and the jamb. When safe doors were built with bolts that slid into the jamb on all four sides, safecrackers began blowing gunpowder around the door with an air pump. Now they use nitroglycerin, acetylene torches and power drills...
...clock, 4,000 of them had squeezed into the movie house. They suffered the feature picture while 4,000 more queued up outside. A policeman, pinned against a door jamb, got two ribs fractured and was removed to a hospital. A plate-glass show window fell in, and the crowding jitterbugs shrieked. Thirty more police arrived. Mounted patrolmen wrangled 75 of the under-admission-age children out of the line and sent them home to mother...
Without poaching on melodrama, Director Richard Thorpe manages to add triumphant suspense to his mauled hero's removal from the torture hideout by having him, though blindfolded, scratch the door jamb in departing, count the steps going down to the car, recall the turns, a dip in the pavement, a stop-&-go signal, the sound of a calliope, etc. All these well-noted clues come home to roost when he goes over the ground a second time...