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Last month, along with 48 other selected "bright boys," one Charles H. Brunissen of West Redding, Conn., went to West Orange, N. J., and answered the long lists of questions whereby Thomas Alva Edison, aided by the U. S. press, sought to find the most eligible young man in the U. S. to become his understudy (TIME, Aug. 12). After answering Mr. Edison's questions, Charles Brunissen said he thought many of them were "senseless, idiotic." Then he learned that though he had not won the contest, with its prize of a four-year scholarship at Massachusetts Institute...
...stamps owned by 100 collectors. To signalize the event a model post office was erected where visitors could mail commemorative letters home by sticking on a lowly, uncan-celed, U. S. carmine 2¢ stamp, the latest issue of which celebrates the golden jubilee of electric light and Thomas Alva Edison...
...Steinmetz, not crazy, destroyed according to program. Afterwards he showed one of his inanimate victims to deaf Thomas Alva Edison. Tapping him on the knee in Morse code, he telegraphed: "My lightning did that, Mr. Edison...
...home, wondered what the insides were like, speculated on the personality of Inventor Edison whom he had seen only in the cinemas. Last week he and 48 other boys, specially chosen as the "brightest" from each state and the District of Columbia, inspected the famed laboratory, met Thomas Alva Edison, matched knowledge in what the daily press excitedly heralded as "The Edison Brain Derby...
...Czecho-Slovakian consul at Pittsburgh, the son of a bishop, a boy brought up in an orphanage. Rather stiffly they sat there in the hot sun, looking with awe at the judges who sat facing them solemnly, and who, by whispers, were soon identified as Thomas Alva Edison himself, Henry Ford, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Dr. Lewis Perry, headmaster of Philips Exeter, George Eastman, and Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...