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"I'm not the brightest boy," he said, "Nor am I going to be Edison's successor".
Tapped by the great man, Mr. Huston was known from then on as "Edison's smartest boy" or "America's Brightest Boy".
He went to Sedbergh, a Cumbrian boarding school with a spartan regime, where he was said to be the brightest boy in a hundred years.
Edison selected another "Brightest Boy," Arthur O. Williams, the next year, and then discontinued the contest as the Great Depression gripped the nation.
"The most extreme example was the brightest boy in the school who was given a D grade for an A-level history module.
The highest point of their campaign was that few seconds' nationwide showing of Mr Quayle's stricken, pretty face.Mr Bentsen, who thought of himself at school as the brightest boy in the class, wanted to be president.
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