Watermelon Eating Contest category-books-sale John Kasich leave the stage

John Kasich leave the stage during the Republican presidential debate at the Fox Theatre in Detroit on March 3

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Watermelon Eating Contest category-books-sale John Kasich leave the stageMeet 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