Memory of life in France helps boy win contest. Mark Willingham, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Willingham, O'Fallon, Ill., became a winner in the "What Is It" contest because he once lived in France. Mark could identify the object in the contest as a barber bowl because while living in a small French village he used to notice them at the barber shop. Mark's essay on the bowl, which
A nine-year-old boy, entering the "What Is It?" contest for the first time, used a book that belongs to his grandmother to identify the object and become the winner for the week of March 17. John J. McDermott Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. McDermott from Kirkwood, Missouri.