Monday, Feb. 12, 1996

WINNERS & LOSERS/THE PRIMARY COLORS WHODUNIT

WINNERS

ANONYMOUS His/her first novel is in its seventh printing with talks for million-dollar paperback rights

MANDY GRUNWALD The idle ex-flack for Clinton (and suspected novelist) has never received so much attention

HAROLD EVANS Decision by market-savvy publisher to dub author "Anonymous" is his most astute yet

LOSERS

COLIN POWELL No longer the hot political author, the general may just have to run for President

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS If he's so indispensable to Clinton, how does he have so much time to talk about fiction?

THE WASHINGTON PRESS CORPS Unable to crack the secret, journalists take out frustrations on Bob Dole and Steve Forbes