Watermelon Eating Contest Size:20" x 25" Everything must be built from

Everything must be built from the ground up

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

mastered the daredevil stunt as a circus act and performed it for more than 40 years

raced down the beach shouting

with gritty replaced by glossy

Watermelon Eating Contest Size:20" x 25" Everything must be built fromMeet 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