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Managing editor Sam Gatlin (Webb, who also directed) works to get out the next morning edition of the L.A. paper and the newsroom has a run of overlapping personal and professional stories. Longtime rewrite editor Bernice Valentine's (Lorimer) grandson is among the missing Air Force pilots who were out to set a flying record and a little girl, lost in the city's storm drains, has Gatlin reflecting on his wife Peggy's (Blake) desire for them to adopt a child. Film is much like Webb's "Dragnet" 'just the facts' work.