“It’s true!” he shouted, crying. “Mr. Weinberg just told me! He heard it on the radio in the faculty room!” I stared at him and felt myself slide slowly back onto my desk. Mr. Weinberg taught English. He was a short, bald man, with no sense of humor, and his motto was “Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.” If Mr. Weinberg had told Davey Cantor that President Roosevelt was dead . . .
