#William Arthur Neubauer

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Steamy Saturday

"A private nurse learns the truth about men!"

"A nurse's job is to pamper and please men. . . . But Kay Taylor was too beautiful, too inflammable herself, to soothe any man. . . ."

"Kay needed pampering herself, and as a private nurse, she was able to find it, with the husband of one patient and the sweetheart of another. . . ."

The premise for Wayward Nurse, a Venus Books publication, "first with the best in original love fiction," published by Star Guidance, Inc. in 1953, is about as steamy as it gets. Kay Taylor, a confused and love-hungry private nurse for wealthy clients, plows through one train-wreck romance after another until finally ending up with Mike, "for all her life," on a boat that is apparently being followed by a shark (a metaphor, no doubt) -- "And on creaked the mast, on gurgled the great, undulant, golden sea. . . ." (another suggestive metaphor).

Wayward Nurse, first published in 1952 by another pulp publisher Cameo Books, was written by Norman Bligh, one of the many the pseudonyms of the ultra-prolific pulp novelist William Arthur Neubauer (1916-1982). We think the cover art by noted American magazine and pulp-cover artist Rudolph Belarski (1900-1983) is perhaps the second most provocative cover in our nurse romance collection of over 500 titles. The most provocative will be presented in coming weeks, so stay tuned. And we are just tickled that the publisher made the effort to mention that the highly provocative (for the early 1950s) photograph on the back cover of a couple in their swimsuits (or is it their underwear!) was "Specially posed by professional models" -- as if to say, no nurses were harmed in the making of this photograph. Delightful!

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George Gross, cover art for Bedtime Angel by William Arthur Neubauer, 1951

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Published 1953 by Norman Bligh (aka William Arthur Neubauer). Cover illustration by Raymond S. Pease.