Johnny Sands

"World War II is over, and millions of GIs forever changed by the war return to a nation far different from the one they left. Among them are three Marines: Bill, an easygoing cowpoke with a silver plate in his head and a dream of buying a ranch; Perry, a once-promising boxer who lost his legs in combat; and the youngest, Cliff, who went to war a boy and came back a man. Once home, Cliff meets a gentle war widow as profoundly altered by the conflict...

"Macdonald Carey plays a crusading newspaperman who seemingly is the only person willing to champion the oppressed workers' cause and tries to stop a lynch mob's manhunt of a Latino fugitive accused of fomenting a riot"--Container.