Dorothy Vaughan

Dr. Adrian seeks to cure a patient using human spinal fluid, but when his supply is lost, a deadly encounter with a circus ape sparks a grim new plan.

A telephone operator covering for a friend's "fling" finds herself in the middle of a major disaster when the city is hit by a big flood and her switchboard is the center of communications.

A young girl who grew up with a single, party-girl mother learned how to become a con artist to survive exhibits the same behavior when she has to raise her young daughter alone after her husband is killed in the war.