Notebook

By Kathleen Adams, M.M. Buechner, Daniel Eisenberg, Tam Gray, Michael Krantz, Jodie Morse, Michele Orecklin, Alain Sanders, Susan Veitch

WINNERS

SAY IT AIN'T SO, JER

MICHAEL EISNER Disney quarterly profits rise 22%, stock splits 3 for 1, and Animal Kingdom opens. Roar on, Mike

K-TEL Stock of oldies packagers up sixfold in April. First guys buy Viagra, then the mood music

THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT With 705th day in power, third-longest-running since WW II

& LOSERS

JERRY SPRINGER Report says program's fights are faked. Maybe he can recast as World Emotional Wrestling

DAN BURTON Congressman calls the President "scumbag." Again, lucky Clinton is boosted by a critic's blunder

SUSAN MCDOUGAL Like Liddy, paying a price for silence. Will she get a radio gig?