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The week-old mystery of the missing Robert I. Myerson '42 reached its denouement yesterday afternoon when University officials received a terse telegram sent by the boy's father from Salt Lake City, Utah, revealing that he had been located there in sound health and good spirits.
After receiving a letter from his son on Wednesday, the senior Myerson flew out to Utah to join him, Mrs. Myerson revealed last night. Her first direct word from him since his disappearance last Thursday came yesterday when young Myerson called her by long distance, said "Hello, mother; this is Bob, I'm fine," and hung up.
"Unlimited Confidence"
"We have unlimited confidence in Bob," Mrs. Myerson said last night. "He is a boy of character. All we wanted to know was where he was." She did not know whether or not he plans to return to Cambridge.
It could not be learned how Myerson reached the Mormon metropolis, or what his motives were in going there. He was believed to have with him about $100 when he left Harvard a week ago yesterday. A United Press dispatch states that Mrs. Myerson believes he communicated with his father as soon as advertisements of his disappearance were issued.
Traveling by train, Myerson will return to his Brooklyn, New York home with his father in the near future.
Sold Trumpet
When he vanished eight days ago, Myerson had sold many personal possessions, including a trumpet, to raise money for his disappearing act, no motive for which has been suggested other than unhappiness in college. Throughout an anxious week his parents steadily maintained that they were in complete sympathy with whatever plans he had formulated "to make his own way in the world."
Martin Marks '42, one of Myerson's Wigglesworth roommates, said last night, "I think he wants to come back to college. I have no idea how he got out there."
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