Bright Boy

Inventor Thomas Alva Edison having abandoned his annual intelligence tests for high school graduates,* the Central Press Association--aided by Instructor Sabina Hart Connolly of Yale's Department of Education--undertook last month to select the nation's six brightest boys. Before being sent on a trip to Italy last week, the boys were received at a Manhattan banquet by Senator Royal Samuel Copeland of New York. To see how smart they were, Senator Copeland began popping questions. "Who is Adolf Hitler?" the Senator asked Prizewinner David Englander of Brooklyn.

Bright Boy Englander glibly chirped: "Dictator of Italy."

*Most famed puzzler of the 1930 Edison questionnaire: if you and an assorted party of seven were stranded in a desert with escape possible only for three, which three would you save? Last week came word of an actual party of seven, much like Mr. Edison's--including a 16-year-old mother and her baby--whose bus broke down crossing; the desert between Nogales and Mexicali, Mexico. After wandering five days, the mother, baby and two others died. The three survivors were discovered raving.

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