Specialist in Specs

CHARLES H. FOSTER '32 Tired of spectacle frames that look like imitations of "the backs of old turtles," Charles H. Foster '32, modern, imaginative president of American Spectacle Company, has done something about it, to the delight of women and the possible consternation of the male sex. He is the man behind the highfashion spectacle frames that go off at all angles and have lace, golden materials and polka dots imbedded between layers of plastic. He built his own plastic plants, and offset the Dorothy Parker canard by cracking, "Men will pick up checks for gals who wear specs"—especially Foster specs.

Foster is also senior partner of Charles Foster and Company, which is allied with American Spectacle in making a major business of the new frames. According to a short profile in SalesManagement, Foster loves to shock people with practical jokes and "once made a Lucite mouse trap (the better one) to beat a path into executives' inner-sanctums."