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"We did it! We did it!" squealed Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward to Kitty Carlisle Hart. Did it? Pamela, the widow of Leland Hayward, was announcing her marriage to Averell Harriman. Those two scalawags, 51 and 79, respectively, had nipped off that afternoon to St. Thomas More Roman Catholic Church (Pamela is a Catholic) with no one but his daughter, her sister and Ethel Kennedy as witnesses. Kitty Carlisle and the 150-odd other guests, who thought they were coming to Harriman's Manhattan town house for an engagement party, found themselves singing epithalamiums with refrains such as "Never saw a group so happy for a couple" (Mrs. Joshua Logan) and "Great-o!" (Vogue's ex-editor Diana Vreeland). "I was delighted to see Pamela married again," said Truman Capote. "It was either the beginning or the end of an era, whichever way you want to take it." ··· It was six-all in the first set of the finals between Veterans Billie Jean King and Rosemary Casals at the Pepsi Pacific Southwest Open tennis championships in Los Angeles. "Out!" said a linesman, and Billie Jean was down love-two in the tie breaker. Furious at what they considered to be the latest in a string of bad calls by that particular linesman, Casals and King stalked off the court in a huff. Women's-Libbers, both of them (it was too bad that the linesman in question was a woman), they said that they didn't care what happened to the prize money—$4,000 for the winner, $2,500 for the loser—as long as it wasn't given to the men players in the tournament. Later they admitted that they had acted badly and agreed to have themselves fined $1,000 apiece. Even so, they still have hope of getting their hands on the $6,500 and splitting it. Whether or not she ever sees a penny of the prize money, however, Billie Jean, by the quarter-final round of the Virginia Slims Thunderbird Tournament in Phoenix. Ariz., became the first woman athlete ever to earn more than $100,000 in a year.