Watermelon Eating Contest Size:20" x 25" with gritty replaced by glossy

with gritty replaced by glossy

" wrote Rear Admiral Emory S

raced down the beach shouting

photographed this group of Beatlemaniacs in hysterics across the street from The Plaza Hotel

Watermelon Eating Contest Size:20" x 25" with gritty replaced by glossyMeet Bernard Weiselberg, a champion watermelon eater. In 1935, when one of our staff photographers took this photo, the 5 year old had defeated all other contestants under age 10 in not just a watermelon eating contest but a pie eating contest, too. A year later, the 6 year old Brooklyn boy took the pie title once again in a spectacle The Times found difficult to ignore. "Champion Bernard Weiselberg Smears Rivals and Self," read one headline. "His