NOTEBOOK

By KATHLEEN ADAMS, ELIZABETH L. BLAND, DANIEL EISENBERG, LISA GRANATSTEIN, ANITA HAMILTON, JANICE M. HOROWITZ, NADYA LABI, ELIZABETH RUDULPH AND ALAIN L. SANDERS

WINNERS & LOSERS

THE CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST

[WINNERS]

SANDY WEILL Revenge is sweet; gobbling up Salomon makes Travelers chairman King o' the Street

TOM HAMMOND He's not exactly a household name, but somebody at NBC has to inherit Marv's airtime

IBM'S DEEP BLUE Rare is the athlete who retires at the top of his/her/its game

[& LOSERS]

HALEY BARBOUR He dissed the Dems for overseas fund raising; now a grand jury is probing him for the same thing

SEYMOUR HERSH J.F.K.-Marilyn papers turn out to be about as real--and as journalistic--as the Hitler diaries

ER Boffo ratings, but the live show seemed like General Hospital

TOUPEES AWAY!

Thanks to Marv Albert, the toupee has gone from just dorky to a bit creepy. Who are the remaining wig wearers? See if you can match the name to the piece.

1. Burt Reynolds 2. Charlton Heston 3. Charles Grodin 4. William Shatner 5. Marv Albert 6. Frank Sinatra

Answers: A=2; B=4; C=1; D=6; E=5; F=3

HEALTH REPORT

THE GOOD NEWS

FLU FIGHTER You may no longer have to spend the usual week in bed if you catch the flu. When taken within 30 hours of getting sick, a drug called zanamivir can shorten the duration of Type A and Type B flu from seven to four days. Zanamivir still needs FDA approval.

CLIMATE COUNTS The thermostat may help your heart as much as a StairMaster does. A study credits heating and air conditioning with a drop in fatal heart attacks in the U.S. Extreme temperatures can put undue stress on the cardiovascular system.

DRUG REHAB Thalidomide, banned 35 years ago for causing horrendous birth defects, may be okayed for a new role: treating leprosy.

Sources: New England Journal of Medicine; Journal of the American Medical Association; U.S. FDA

THE BAD NEWS

HEADS UP Don't worry if you get a pain in the side when exercising, but a pain in the head may be a sign of something more serious: blocked coronary arteries. Which headaches are most worrisome? Severe ones that end when the exercise does.

GIRTH OF A NATION Researchers have known that obese parents tend to have overweight kids. Now a study shows that the offspring are twice as likely to wind up as obese adults.

NO SHORTCUTS Pint-size kids shouldn't count on growth-hormone injections to make them grow tall. In France a large study found most of those who were treated for years never achieved normal height.

Sources: Neurology; New England Journal of Medicine; British Medical Journal

MODERN MANNERS

NO BOOZE BILL Overeating, philandering, pseudo inhaling--that's the old Bill Clinton. Now it seems Bill's gone teetotal. Never much of a drinker, last week the President faked sipping wine during two toasts at a U.N. luncheon. A breach of etiquette? No, says Letitia Baldrige, former chief of staff to Jackie Kennedy and author of More than Manners: "If you bring the glass to your mouth, who's going to know?"

NUMBERS

43: Number of Marv Albert jokes Jay Leno has told on the Tonight Show

0: Number of Marv Albert jokes David Letterman has made on the Late Show

100: Estimated number of appearances Albert has made on Letterman

0.2: Percentage of IRS audits conducted on large corporations

58.2: Percentage of underpayments found by the IRS that come from large corporations

28.8: Average number of days that high school cheerleaders lose to injury each year

5.6: Average number of days that high school football players lose

$7: Amount in billions of Harvard's endowment last year

$4: Amount in billions of the jump in Harvard's endowment this year

4.1: Percentage of increase in Harvard's tuition from last year to this year

Sources: NBC, CBS, IRS, The Physician and Sportsmedicine, College Board

TIME CAPSULE

PRESIDENT CLINTON went to Little Rock, Ark., to preach racial harmony and recall the fierce opposition to school integration there 40 years ago. Here is an excerpt from TIME's Oct. 7, 1957, report:

By 5 a.m. Wednesday, combat-ready paratroopers lined the two blocks of Park Avenue in front of the school, stood with fixed bayonets on corners a block away in each direction... A jeep rolled through the barricade at 16th Street and Park Avenue, followed by an Army station wagon and another jeep. The Negroes piled out of the station wagon. Three platoons came on the double across the school grounds, deployed in strategic positions. Another platoon lined up on either side of the Negroes, escorted them inside the building... [Once there the] Negro children reported that they were well treated... During the noon hour, a white boy and girl, both school leaders, saw a Negro boy eating alone. They asked, "Would you like to come over to our table?" The boy smiled gratefully: "Gosh, I'd love to." And another Negro pupil recalled, "The white kids broke the ice. They talked to us." Clearly, many of the white children of Central High School were proving themselves better citizens than their elders.