Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins’ farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn’t paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to estimate…

To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.

Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question…

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.

The poor, elderly—and the wily, when it comes to parting those who can afford it from their money—Scottish skipper of a broken-down old ‘puffer’ boat tricks an American tycoon into…

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…

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

An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.

The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance.

A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time…

The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.

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…

A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.