SCHOOLBOY’S CONFIDENCE
EXAMINATION RESULT LONDON. July 23. Adrian Francis Mitchell, 18-year-old Liverpool college boy. who came out first of 3500 students in a Civil Service examination, was so sure of winning that as soon as his examination was over he told his parents to complete their plans to live in London. That was last April. A few days ago lie heard the result. / Why was he so confident? “I did so much swotting that I was sure of succeeding,” he said to-day. “Next month we shall be living in Wimbledon (S7vV. London).” Adrian —Britain’s brainiest boy in the eyes of the Civil Service—now has a choice of jobs in the War Office, Treasury, Post Office and Customs. He fancies the Treasury. ’
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20037, 8 September 1939, Page 3
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121SCHOOLBOY’S CONFIDENCE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20037, 8 September 1939, Page 3
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