Radio: Farewell Address

When it was announced three weeks ago that Harold Thomas Henry (Boake) Carter's contract to broadcast for General Foods would not be renewed for the last quarter of the year, all parties to the agreement were unanimous in denying that Boake Carter's unpopularity with labor and the Government had anything to do with the failure to renew. Last week, when Newscaster Carter made his last broadcast for Post Toasties and Huskies, Announcer Erik Rolf repeated the official explanation—that it had been impossible to buy desirable time on the fall network schedules (TIME, Aug....

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