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...Dunbar Laboratory is a small inauspicious building in the far reaches of the University, which resembles a garage station more than a college engineering...
...confusing mixture of a 30-year-old artillery building and a bright shiny 1953 addition, Dunbar houses Harvard's experiments in geophysics, particularly the work of Francis Birch, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology. Originally Dunbar was used as an artillery shed during the first world war; since then it has been deeded over to science, and outdated relics of the militia have been replaced by high-powered compression machines as Birch and his small staff delve into the problems of the earth's inner composition...
Love from All. On Wednesday Mrs. Dunbar received a telegram from a suburb of Montreux. "Unforeseen circumstances have arisen," it read. "Am staying here longer. Please advise school boys returning about a week's time. All extremely well. Pink Rose in marvelous form. Love from all, Melinda." Pink Rose was once the pet name for little Melinda (who was born after her father faded away). Detectives found that the wire, written in a hand completely unlike Mrs. MacLean's, had been filed by a large, heavily rouged woman. A few days later the MacLean Chevrolet was found...
...weeks ago Melinda MacLean and her children, Fergus, 9, Donald, 7, and Melinda, 2, returned from a vacation in the Balearic Islands to their apartment in Geneva, where they had been living for a year with her mother, wealthy Mrs. Melinda Dunbar of Boston and New York. Next day Mrs. MacLean packed two suitcases, loaded the children into the family's black Chevrolet, and set off to weekend at the home of a friend near Montreux, some 50 miles away. She told her mother she would be back on Sunday. The friend? Mrs. Dunbar was not sure...
GEORGE ROBERT DUNBAR...