Notebook

By Tam Martinides Gray, Jodie Morse, Michele Orecklin and Alain L. Sanders

WINNERS & LOSERS PUT A BISCUIT IN IT, REG!

[WINNERS]

JIM BROWN Along with Graham, Groza, Kosar and the whole Dawg Pound, the NFL expands back to Cleveland

NICHOLSON BAKER His novel Vox appears in a Starr subpoena. So there is a future in being a literary mid-list writer

MICHAEL CAMERON Wears Pepsi shirt on Coke day: "liberty or death" for the '90s

[& LOSERS]

REGGIE WHITE Green Bay great stomps on sensitivities during sermon. And he's always played with a helmet

ROGER SHORT Geneticist wants mice to produce human sperm. Makes "Are you a man or a mouse?" a hard call

SLAVERY Clinton calls it "wrong." Now who's defining deviancy down?

BOOKS SO NICE, THEY WROTE THEM TWICE

See if you can match the following synopses from the New York Times BestSellers list with the books they describe:

1. A young lawyer comes to terms with himself after discovering his prestigious firm's dirty secret

2. A young lawyer learns that his firm is engaged in secret, possibly illegal activities

A. John Grisham's 1991 best seller, The Firm

B. John Grisham's current best seller, The Street Lawyer

3. Passion and ambition at work and play among the film folk of New York and L.A.

4. Sex and scandal in Hollywood

C. Jackie Collins' 1971 best seller, Sinners

D. Jackie Collins' current best seller, Thrill

5. Jim Qwilleran and his two cats pursue the cause of a series of disasters

6. Jim Qwilleran and his feline sleuths investigate a series of catastrophes

E. Lilian Jackson Braun's current best seller, The Cat Who Sang for the Birds

F. Lilian Jackson Braun's 1994 best seller, The Cat Who Came to Breakfast

Answers: 1-B, 2-A, 3-D, 4-C, 5-E, 6-F

C'MON, EVERYBODY, FEEL THE BRRRRN

Too bad about Titanic--so many Oscars, so few ways to exploit them. No sequel, no spin-offs, no further books, no cologne. Still, there might be one product that could make it. With Jack and Rose doing all that running, swimming, wading and climbing, why not The Titanic Workout Video? Terrell Lambacker, a personal-training manager for Crunch Fitness in New York City, shows us how reacting to an oceangoing disaster could actually lead to a healthy, well-toned physique.

1 "RUNNING will increase cardiovascular endurance and lung capacity. If you want to wear a gown and high heels, fine, but safety first."

2 "AQUA TRAINING tones muscles, but it's not beneficial to do this workout under hypothermic conditions. Keep those buns warm."

3 "The motion that it takes to WIELD AN AX would benefit the shoulders and triceps, but think before using it instead of a barbell."

4 "STEEP-ANGLE CLIMBS will make the legs more powerful and increase the cardiovascular capacity of the trainee," Lambacker says.

5 "PULLING ONESELF OVER A RAIL is like a good old-fashioned pull-up," Lambacker says. "Doing sets to failure will get you strong."

6 PUMPING THE OSCAR can fight flab. "Picture yourself waving," Lambacker says. "That alarming area under your arm will be toned!"