Harry Bennett

Title: Love Calls the Doctor
Author: Elizabeth Seifert
Published: November 1960, ©1958
Publisher: Permabook
Illustrator: Harry Bennett

His signature is in the lower right-hand corner.

As a child, she cried until she got her sister’s favorite doll. Then it was Belinda’s new hat, her best dresses and next her fiancé. Dazzlingly beautiful, Marian had little difficulty in changing her status from maid of honor to bride. And now she was threatening Belinda’s happiness once more. “I know she’s your sister, Belinda,” Dr. Peter Jahns warned. “But please be careful. Marian has no family loyalty. She proved that once. Don’t let her hurt you again!”

Jo Polseno

Title: Mollie Sloan Special Nurse 
Author: Millicent Morgan
Publisher: Permabooks
Published: January 1963, ©1962
Illustrator: Jo Polseno

His signature is on the middle left-hand side of the page.

Mollie Sloan, R.N., was a good nurse, so good in fact that a group of doctors from the hospital where she’d trained used her exclusively on their most difficult cases. She had a nice apartment, money in the bank, friends galore, but something was deeply troubling Mollie. It came to a head when Eric Hart, a young concert pianist at the peak of his career, was admitted to the hospital. His right hand was completely paralyzed, though organically there was nothing the matter with it. Dr. Paul Desmond, his doctor, immediately put Mollie on the case. But in the end it was more than curing Eric so that he might return to his career. For in the process Mollie discovered that she must make one of the most difficult choices of her young life. It involved not only her work, which she loved, but two men. The trouble was that it seemed to her she was in love with them both!

Robert Maguire

Title: Ship's Nurse
Author: Rosie M. Banks
Publisher: Permabooks M-4223
Published: January 1962, ©1962
Illustrator: Robert Maguire
Review available

This is not credited, but it is in his style.

When her aunt, the ship’s senior nurse, breaks her ankle, Cathy volunteers for duty. There seems to be more than the usual shipboard intrigue—the ship’s doctor drinks tea, secretly laced with rum, to forget painful memories. His young assistant yearns to leave the ship to start his own practice. A stowaway—on a last fling before settling down to responsibility—is discovered. A raucous Texas dowager drinks too much and her gigolo-husband has a roving eye. Cathy herself if faced with an oversupply of admirers. An innocent flirtation and sudden tragedy make Cathy realize the depth of her dedication to nursing—and where her heart is.

Harry Schaare

Title: Nurse with a Past
Author: Diane Frazer
Publisher: Permabooks (M4307)
Published: October 1964, ©1964
Illustrator: Harry Schaare

His signature runs along the left side of the illustration.

“Let’s leave Nancy alone, shall we? She’s a nice girl. Maybe she’s shy.”
“Shy!” Midge shrieked. “Now I’ve heard everything. Her Highness shy! Why, she’s conceited and snobbish. Apparently we’re not good enough for her.”
“Oh, Midge, you don’t even mean that,” Minerva protested. “She’s a little bit nuts about meddcin, as she calls it. She really wanted to hang out a shingle herself.”
“Stop it,” Midge answered, “we’ve all heard that sob story. If you ask me, it’s just a front. She doesn’t give a damn about a career. What she really wants is a man with money. But real money. If she finds one, you’ll see how quickly she forgets about doctors and nurses!”

Jerry Allison

Title: Nurse Lily and Mister X
Author: Diane Frazer
Publisher: Permabook
Published: December 1961, ©1961
Illustrator: Jerry Allison
Review available

His signature runs along her right shoulder.

Her first impression was a huge head with silver-white hair, a bristling mustache and fierce eyes. It was like seeing the Eiffel Tower or the Colosseum for the first time after having looked at it hundreds of times in magazines or on post cards. Lily’s professional smile was frozen on her lips. Usually she would approach a patient briskly, her hand outstretched, and introduce herself. She had been taught how to do it in nursing school—with just the right amount of cheerfulness. But this was a man who simply didn’t lend himself to this kind of approach. This was a man who had terrorized the White House, a man even the President was said to be afraid of…

Jo Polseno

Title: The New Doctor
Author: Elizabeth Seifert
Copyright: 1962
Publisher: Permabook
Illustrator: Jo Polseno

His signature is on the right.

His teeth were very white and flashed when he talked or smiled. He moved gracefully and spoke with a voice that was deep and soft and musical. That was how Arline Evans, the clinic’s administrator, first saw Jamie Faloon, the new doctor at the chemical plant. Soon Arline was enraptured. But Jamie appeared quite different to the clinic doctors who watched the romance blossom. Why did the elder Dr. Faloon eye his son’s career nervously? Why did Jamie’s beautiful stepmother frantically defend him as she pushed into society? Were Jamie’s mistakes with patients due to an ambitious man’s carelessness? Or was there some hidden intent behind them—a desire to play God?

Robert Abbett

Title: Settlement Nurse
Author: Rosie M. Banks
Copyright: 1959
Publisher: Permabooks
Illustrator: Robert Abbett
Review available

His signature is under the stairs, and he is credited on the back cover.

Cindy anxiously watched her delirious patient. Kenneth Randall was a new experience for her. To the older nurses from the settlement house he was just another drifter—a vagrant who moved from one cheap hotel room to another, from one misery to the next. But Cindy saw only a man who needed her as no one ever had. It was her job to save him. But from what? His past was a mystery. And what of his future? Did it depend on the show girl who had left her green stockings in his room? Suddenly Cindy was shocked to realize that she was actually jealous of a woman she had never seen. It was ridiculous—but it had happened. Cindy was falling in love with a strange man she hadn’t even spoken to!

Jerry Allison

Title: Big City Nurse
Author: Jane Highmore
Publisher: Permabooks
Copyright: 1961
Illustrator: Jerry Allison
Review available here.

His signature runs alongside the stethoscope.

For a few seconds they stood silently, then Alex tilted Marcia’s head back and kissed her with a demanding force unlike anything she had ever experienced. His urgent demands aroused in her heart a fire that could be quenched only by meeting his ardor with her own. Rapturously Marcia gave herself up to his embrace. He laughed huskily. “And to think I wanted a malleable little wife!” And still there was a nagging doubt deep within her heart. Was this what she wanted—to marry a Fifth Avenue doctor, to give up her own career? Yet Alex was everything she had ever dreamed—handsome, wealthy, intelligent. What was it that sometimes bothered her so deeply, even when she was in his arms?

Jo Polseno

Title: Confidential Nurse
Author: Diane Frazer
Publisher: Permabook
Copyright: 1962
Illustrator: Jo Polseno
Review available

The artist's signature is in the lower right-hand corner.

Linn looked over at the man in the bed. He was lying with his face turned to the wall. He was asleep, she thought, or in pain, because he did not turn his head when they came in. Dr. Jacoby bent over the bed. “Awake or alseep?” he asked, bending over the patient. “Ah, not asleep. I brought your nurse. A pretty girl with a pretty name. Linn. Linn Morgan.” Linn stood beside Dr. Jacoby, leaned forward and held out her hand. On her face waas the smile of welcome, of cheer, the smile that was automatic. The man lying there turned his head. Linn stood with her hand still outstretched, the smile frozen on her lips. She stood paralyzed for the eternity of a moment, aware of Dr. Jacoby’s startled look. The man in the bed was Ronald Adair!

Clark Hulings

Title: Nurse Kathy
Author: Adeline McElfresh
Publisher: Permabooks
Copyright: 1956
Illustrator: Clark Hulings
Review available

His signature is in the lower left corner.

Kathy was young, beautiful and too busy to marry. The hospital was her whole life, until one night a near-dying man was brought into the emergency ward. Suddenly it mattered terribly to Kathy that the stranger live. A perplexing secret was locked in by the stranger’s amnesia. And the mystery deepened when a brutal attack on this patient almost cost Kathy her life, too. Someone now wanted them both to die … From the corridors of a busy hospital comes this dramatic story of a young nurse who learned to combine love with the excitement of a challenging career.