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He taxied downtown to the athletic club, where he maintained his three-room apartment. The 20-story building was a citadel of masculinity -- no females allowed -- and recently it was an especial relief to enter the lobby and leave behind the world of turbulently mixed sexes.
The small but lush entry chamber had a deserted air about it this afternoon. At the room desk, Crumbley, the clerk, handed him his key with a pallid hand and returned to sigh over a colored picture in _Esquire_ -- it was the "fold-out" page, featuring a gorgeous blonde reclining at full length. Crumbley's expression, however, was far from the loose-lipped, lecherous leer that he normally exposed to such art. His eyes had a thin glaze over them, he breathed shallowly and, if Dr. Murt had not known the little man's cynically promiscuous nature so well, he'd have sworn Crumbley was in love.