Polite Dissent

Fresh out of high school, small town girl Linda Carter¹ has been accepted into the prestigious nursing school Metro General². She meets her two roommates: Christine, a rich girl trying to make it without her family’s money; and Georgia, an inner-city girl trying for a fresh start. They don’t get along at first, but soon become fast friends and help each other through the tough classes of nursing school³.

They each have problems outside of school as well. Linda falls in love with one of her patients; luckily he’s young, handsome, and very rich. He wants to marry Linda, but he wants her to give up nursing first. She asks for a few days to consider his offer. Meanwhile, Christine’s father pressures her to give up nursing. She promises to think about it. Georgia returns home to find the same sense of hopelessness as ever in the slums, made worse by the searing heat of the summer. In addition, no one has heard from her older brother for weeks.

The heat causes a brown out and soon most of the city loses power. Luckily, the hospital has emergency generators so it maintains electrical power. This doesn’t sit well with some of the inner city residents who are convinced that the hospital is part of plot to steal their power. Two of them sneak into the hospital to plant a bomb on the emergency generator. Linda and her roommates catch the criminals in the act and a standoff ensues. One of the thugs turns out to be Georgia’s older brother, and he leaps on his partner when he pulls a gun on the student nurses. The hospital is saved, the girls are safe, Gloria has found her brother, and now Linda must give her boyfriend the answer to his marriage proposal…⁴

Notes:
¹Sadly, this is not the Lynda Carter of Wonder Woman fame.
²Could this be the same “Metro Hospital” where Dr. Burke and Dr. Landon work?
³There seems to be little actual nursing taught in the classes shown. There’s basic science, and some fairly advanced medicine, but no nursing. And there’s fashion: “Now we will discuss the proper assembling of the nurse’s uniform.”
⁴Her answer? Here’s a little hint: the comic is Night Nurse not Housewives at Play.

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