An alumna of the Juilliard School of Music and the Ziegfeld Follies, Soprano Jane Pickens married millionaire Manhattan Investment Banker William C. Langley in 1954, gave up her TV show to juggle benefit balls and paint. Working in her Park Avenue apartment and at her Westbury, L.I., country home, she developed what one art authority called "an innocent eye." Wondered she: "Is that good or bad?" Last week, good or bad, the ex-songstress had her first one-woman show (with proceeds to cerebral-palsy research), sold 34 canvases on opening day to such prominent gallerygoers as Mrs. Laurance Rockefeller. Adele Astaire Douglass, Elizabeth Arden Graham, Mrs. George Baker, Mrs. Winthrop Aldrich and Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock.

Because he left $5,600 of his estimated $15 million estate to London's Southwark Cathedral, Oscar Hammerstein II will be honored by the designation of two choirboys as "Hammerstein Chanters," and by a plaque "To the glory of God and in memory of Oscar Hammerstein, citizen of the United States of America, playwright and lyricist." Among the other assorted literary types honored in the ancient church: William Shakespeare, Dr. Johnson, John Harvard.

Show business's "star-spangled octopus," the Music Corp. of America, was up in alms. After the talent agency's top brass decided to honor Board Chairman Jules Caesar Stem's 65th birthday with a donation to his favorite charity —Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc.-ex-Ophthalmologist Stein promised to "match anything raised up to a million." Last week 19 of his openhanded executives ponied up an even million and forced him to fill out the $2,000,000 parlay. Said part-time Philanthropist Stein: "I guess they've done pretty well here, after all."

"I was just spending a quiet evening reading Horace. I don't quite understand what all this raucous noise is," Harvard President Nathan Pusey told 1,500 students storming the locked gates* of his Harvard Yard home. Exercised by the university's sudden decision—after 325 years—to inscribe Harvard College diplomas in English instead of Latin, the Cambridge classicists were undeterred by Pusey's non-Horatian plea:

What's pat in the Latin

Or chic in the Greek,

I always distinguish

More clearly in English.

While a toga-clad rabble-rouser egged them on, their legions grew to 4,000 in two riotous evenings (against a force of 32 Yard cops and proctors, augmented during the second demonstration by 25 tear-gas-tossing Cambridge police). Marching on Harvard Square and making the spring night hideous with an ad hominem battle cry—"Latin, Si; Pusey, No!" —the undergraduates got nowhere with a recalcitrant president, who (said the Crimson) would forevermore be "derided as the man who changed alma mater to foster mother."

A new U.S. lactation record for goats was announced, and the standard-shatterer was no ordinary goatnik but a good old Flat Rock (N.C.) nanny. Her breeder: a University of Chicago Phi Bete ('04) now specializing in capralogy, Lillian Steichen Sandburg, 78, sister of Photographer Edward Steichen and wife (since 1908) of Poet-Lincoln Lord Carl Sandburg. The record: 191 Ibs. of butterfat, 5,750 Ibs. of milk in a 305-day period.