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ats ae. :::-: -LYND did his research and writing in Munaie, writing © 77-597 to study various cities and towns in the state of Indiana for the purpos of selecting onewhicn yould be more nearly a typical American town. _For this Muncie was chosen and subsecuently, for sever his sociolo fro ical study of the town, LYND obtained his office curters. According to the latter, Muncie was chosen es the tyoical | s+ was celieved at the tine to heve, on the whole,: American towm because i% the smelles foreign element (2 ver cent) for its sige of any city in the. United States. type GB 2202025200 Mr. LYND as an intelligent, htgh “ individual. it was his opinion that LYND had previously come from Louisville, Kentucky, «nd that his family background was unquestionable in every respec At the time of his occupying space in the Western Reserve Building, Muncie, Indiana, for the purposes of his research and oe “Mr LYND was connected with Scribner's Magazine in New York City an was of the opinion that he was still effiliated with the magazine firn. coulé not auestion the Americanism and loyalty of ur, LYZD, celzving nim to ve one hundred ver cent American in every respect. ee the Huncie, Indiana Chamber, “of Commerce, stave at ne knew "8 UTD well, that in his recollection he hed been in Muncie on two occasions for tne purpose of writing. mhe first time LYND wrote "Miadletown", and Ng ddletown in Transition" was written the second time, about ten years Later -poth works were sociological studies of Muncie, Indiana. ...50.:2ar, sal a ew there was not the dightest suestion in his mind regardi the character, Am@iganism and loyalty of Mr, LYND. In his opinion he was a "nice fellow". Information filed at the Chamoer of Commerce regarding thi facts end figures of Muncie disclosed that "Muncie was selected as the -. most-typical American city of its size and classification by the Institute ,o: Social ang Religious Research of New York, in 1925"... This is ‘the result: LYND's work. © 09) “aou> eae be ed . Oe LSE eds of the Roberts Hotel, in: Indiana, stated, on dune 25, 19 2,. that he remembered Mr. LYND but that so far as he knew there was nothing about nis living. in and around the ho 1: which would indicate that he was other than of the high type, good characte individual. .He. stated that if there wes anything derrogatory about 4¢ certainly. had not come to his attention... Sete Sed