30 1959 Managing Editor Sam Gatlin arrives in the afternoon and departs early the next morning, having assembled a morning newspaper for Los Angeles During this implausibly active day in the life of a metropolitan newspaper, Sam and his wife Peggy argue about adopting a child The reporters grandson pilots a military plane from Honolulu to New York A child is lost in the LA sewers Gatlin composes a warning headline with picture Children Stay Out of These And copy boy Earl Collins considers quitting after failing to properly deliver a bet by city editor Jim Bathgate on the sex of children being born to a famous actress