Notebook

By Kathleen Adams, Daniel Eisenberg, Tam Gray, Anita Hamilton, Declan McCullagh, Michele Orecklin, Alain Sanders

WINNERS & LOSERS CLEAN, REVERENT AND COMPATIBLE WITH WINDOWS

[WINNERS]

LARRY DOBY Jackie Robinson's American League counterpart finally wins election to the Hall of Fame

HELPFUL, HARDWORKIN' GAYS Courts say they can join the Boy Scouts, and be free from same-sex harassment on the job

LAKE CHAMPLAIN Congress creates a new Great Lake. Next up: making pigs fly

[& LOSERS]

PAUL SIMON Gutsy career move never comes together; trouble-plagued Capeman to fold with $11 million loss

BILL GATES Forget the antitrust battle: having to kowtow to mere Senators is distasteful enough

RUPERT MURDOCH Bans book, blames staff, pays settlement, eats crow

NEWSMAKER REUNION

Among the guests at TIME's 75th-anniversary party last week were 84 people who had appeared on the cover:

Lamar Alexander, Muhammad Ali, Terry Anderson, Lauren Bacall, F. Lee Bailey, Anne Bancroft, Christiaan Barnard, Bill Bradley, William Bratton, Tom Brokaw, Donald Budge, Joseph Califano, Steve Case, Dick Cavett, Carol Channing, Julia Child, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Kevin Costner, Walter Cronkite, Tom Cruise, Patricia Nixon Cox, Michael Deaver, Michael E. DeBakey, William DeVries, Joe DiMaggio, Jerry Falwell, Louis Farrakhan, Kelly Flinn, Jodie Foster, David Frost, Bill Gates, John Glenn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Billy Graham, Andrew Grove, Dorothy Hamill, Valerie Harper, Beth Heiden, Anita Hill, David Ho, Lee Iacocca, John Irving, Steve Jobs, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jack Kemp, Caroline Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Kerrigan, Jack Kevorkian, Henry Kissinger, Bert Lance, Sophia Loren, James Lovell, Lori Lucas, Robert McNamara, Norman Mailer, Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Morris, Toni Morrison, Ralph Nader, Mike Nichols, Edward James Olmos, Jane Pauley, Dan Rather, Donna Rice, Leni Riefenstahl, Molly Ringwald, Mickey Rooney, Mort Sahl, Diane Sawyer, Claudia Schiffer, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Sargent Shriver, Steven Spielberg, Kerri Strug, Cheryl Tiegs, Laurence Tisch, Donald Trump, Peter Ueberroth, Paul Volcker, Andrew Weil, Raquel Welch and William Westmoreland.

CAPITALISM

THE BUCK NEVER STOPS Great economic news, Bill! The latest Moni-market indicators suggest a solid rise in g.d.p. (or gross domestic products). At a Manhattan gourmet shop, snackers can nibble a $20 Monica cookie. In New York a cable ad promotes a phone line to the Oval Orifice. In Germany a decorating company boasts that its "wall-to-wall carpets are knee-friendly and bugging-proof."

SAY WHAT?

Not yet a quarter old, 1998 already has distinguished itself in the realm of awkward excuses and unconvincing explanations. And with hardly anyone in the Lewinsky matter yet on public record, the best may be yet to come.

"This was not a sexual relationship. It was a very affectionate relationship, and I'm not trying to define when affection ends and sex begins." DNC chairman Roy Romer,describing the nature of his 16-year relationship with a woman 18 years his junior

"We were sitting around playing cards, and chairs would break underneath us." U.S. Olympic hockey player Jeremy Roenick, explaining why players' rooms were damaged

"He basically was recollecting what had transpired and was checking to see if Ms. Currie's recollection was the same." A source "close to Clinton," explaining that the President did not call Betty Currie the day after his deposition in order to coach her

"This young woman...made contact with a very vulnerable element of our society--police officers--and then dr[ew] them in." Attorney Troy Spencer, explaining why his client, a Virginia cop suspended for exchanging sexy Internet messages with a minor, did what he did

"Where did most of the slave ships stop? In the South." Arkansas basketball coach Nolan Richardson, on why there are so many good players in the Southeastern Conference

"It was expensive, dirty and a lot of crime, a lot of people, very congested." Earl Pitts, the ex-FBI agent jailed for spying, says he did it because he was assigned to New York City

"Males are made up differently... Men compete, get along, and move on with few emotions, but women break down, get emotional." Big East commissioner Michael Tranghese on why he wouldn't suspend rules for an injured male athlete as he had for a female

NUMBERS

$7.1 million: Reported amount of the contract running back Lamar Smith signed last week with the New Orleans Saints

2: Months in the work release-prison sentence for vehicular assault Smith is in the midst of serving

$8 billion: Projected Federal Government budget surplus for fiscal year 1998

42: Number of hours it takes the Federal Government to spend $8 billion

10.8: Percentage of women in a recent survey who admitted having sex with their supervisor

64: Percentage of that group who said the affair resulted in career advancement

19: Percentage in overall survey who believe Monica Lewinsky made a mistake if she had an affair with President Clinton

22: Percentage in overall survey who said the current scandal has made them more hesitant to begin an office romance with a colleague other than the boss

Sources: CNN/SI; Congressional Budget Office; Osias Foundation