A blustery day!
Another bad day for a rocket launch. It was one of those “Winnie the Pooh” blustery days. The winds were really bad with the temperature in the mid-80s. The only bonus was that it didn’t feel that hot, because of the wind. We didn’t fly too many rockets because the walks were just going to be too long.
A true American institution
Mother loved her job in the filing rooms of the Sears, Roebuck and Co. building in downtown, Atlanta. She could go on break, or after work, right downstairs to shop in the record department of the Sears store below. The building was opened in 1926 as a Sears, Roebuck and Co. retail store, warehouse, and regional office. In 1979, the retail store closed but the building continued operating as a Sears regional office until 1987. Mother worked there around 1945.
“And if you wonder who I be, it’s me it’s me, it’s Ernest T.!”
Howard Jerome Morris was born September 4, 1919, to a Jewish family in the Bronx, New York, the son of Hugo and Elsie Morris. Morris attended New York University on a dramatic arts scholarship. During World War II he was assigned to a United States Army Special Services unit, the entertainment branch, where he was a First Sergeant. He was based in Honolulu and entertained the troops throughout the pacific.
