Business: Small Investor's Boswell

GARFIELD ALBEE DREW

THE Boswell of the small investor is Garfield Albee Drew, a controversial Boston chartist. He tries to call turns in the stock market by keeping careful tab on the odd-lotter—generally the small investor who buys and sells in lots of less than 100 shares. Mustachioed "Jeff" Drew (5 ft. 6 in. and 57), has an unusual attitude toward his subjects: he thinks that they are usually wrong. Small investors, says Drew, are most wrong just when the stock market is making important changes in trends; they sell when the market is getting ready to advance and buy when it...

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