Paul Douglas

A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.

A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague.

Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.

When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice presidents vie to see who will replace him.

The Pittsburgh Pirates' brash and abusive manager receives the help of an angel to win games and become a better person in the process.

A minority stockholder takes on the crooked board of directors at a billion dollar corporation.

In separate stories, five couples learn that they are not legally married.

In Colombia, mining engineer Rian Mitchell discovers Carrero, the lost emerald mine of the Conquistadors, but has to contend with notorious local bandit El Moro's gang and with coffee planter Catherine Knowland's love.

An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.

An aging actress refuses to admit she is too old to play the ingénue role anymore.