Notebook: May 18, 1998

WINNERS

KIRK KERKORIAN Billionaire raider sees his post-merger Chrysler stake treble to $5 billion. Gee, them that has do get

DAVID FALK The agent becomes the product: the middleman for Jordan et al. gets bought for $100 million

ADRIAN LYNE Showtime agrees to air his film version of Lolita. Pundits: you may start your thumbsucking!

& LOSERS

DAN BURTON Lucky Clinton. Not since Robert E. Lee has a man been blessed with such a series of inept enemies

MICKEY MANTLE FBI kept a file on the Yankee slugger. Did Hoover hope "switch hitter" meant something else?

HILLARY CLINTON Gives opinion on...