Inventor Thomas Alva Edison having abandoned his annual intelligence tests for high school graduates,* the Central Press Associationaided by Instructor Sabina Hart Connolly of Yale's Department of Educationundertook 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...