21.   He was the premier stock picker in the nation, his golden touch making it possible for millions of Americans to buy houses and send children to college.

22.   Hundreds of stock pickers are included, but some very good ones are not.

23.   However, the New York Times reported that Simpson has been very successful as the top stock picker at Geico.

24.   In the process, power has shifted to small investors, and the barriers separating professional stock pickers and amateurs have eroded.

25.   In the shift from star stock picker to media star, is Fidelity remaking Lynch, or is Lynch reshaping Fidelity?

26.   Industry executives note that compensation to fund managers has increased, especially as hedge funds have offered huge packages to top stock pickers.

27.   It would be difficult to find two more cosmopolitan stock pickers.

28.   James Crabbe, who manages the fund in Portland, Ore., says the time has come for stock pickers to rule.

29.   Jane Bryant Quinn of Newsweek, one of the most famous personal finance columnists in America, frowns on journalists becoming stock pickers.

30.   Junk-bond enthusiasm has even spread to William H. Miller III, chief executive of Legg Mason Funds Management in Baltimore and a historically successful stock picker.