Everyone else has a new look for the '80s, so why not the nation's 4 million Boy Scouts? And who better to fashion a contemporary look than Couturier Oscar de la Renta? Displayed in New York last week, the de la Renta uniforms were indeed eye-catching. So was Jerry Hall, blond friend of Rock Singer Mick Jagger, who modeled a den-mother outfit that was guaranteed to persuade young men to sign up for adoption, if not Scouting.

Misha, the Moscow mascot of the Summer Olympics, has been shaken by Jimmy Carter's Olympic boycott, and so has the NBC peacock. Now the shock waves have reached Postmaster General William F. Bolger, who last week withdrew all U.S. Olympic commemorative stamps, postcards and envelopes from the market "in support of national policy." Will the Olympic issues become hot collector's items like the 1918 upside-down airmail stamp, or even the less exotic 5-c- 1967 American Space Twins issue, which still commands $10 for a block of four? Not likely. Some 300 million Olympic stamps were sent to post offices last fall. To reckon their value, philatelic enthusiasts will have to determine how many were sold, saved, licked or lost before Bolger halted sales.

W. Averell Harriman was once known in Washington, more or less affectionately, as "the Crocodile" for his deceptively sleepy-looking gaze and sharp bite. He is 88 now. Henry Cabot Lodge is 77. Last week in Boston, the World Affairs Council, honoring Democrat Harriman for long and distinguished diplomatic service, asked Republican Lodge to present the award. The two have compiled more than 90 years of public service--including Harriman's stints as Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Britain and Lodge's tours as envoy to South Viet Nam and West Germany. In his acceptance speech, the Crocodile showed plenty of the old snap. He called Americans "too arrogant" about smaller nations, demanded more freedom for the CIA and lamented the end of the draft as "one of the great casualties of the Viet Nam War." He also chided his quondam Soviet hosts as barbaric "Bolsheviks" determined to subjugate the sturdy people of Afghanistan.

It's not that Londoners don't want a half-ton, half-heroic bronze of British-born Comedian Charlie Chaplin in Leicester Square. After all, Will Shakespeare already stands there, although the Bard's appearance and dignity have been besmirched by pigeons, air pollution and porno spreading through a once tony neighborhood that used to be home to Painters William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds. But installation of the statue of the Little Tramp, who died at 88 in 1977, has been stalled by a standoff between the Greater London Council, which wants to rehabilitate the square speedily, and the more snail-paced local Westminster Council, which objects to the statue on aesthetic grounds. So six months after he was cast, Chaplin still stands, replete with crooked cane, cockeyed derby, sagging frock coat, baggy pants and oversize shoes, in the studio of Sculptor John Doubleday, 33. It was a bureaucratic impasse that the maker of Modern Times would have relished.

On the Record

Christopher Reeve, movie star (Superman, Superman II), after his glider ran out of thermal currents over England and was forced to land at a restricted RAF base: "What a thing to happen to Superman."

Augusto Pinochet, Chile's President, ordering twelve dissidents against his regime into "internal exile" in isolated communities: "What people do not understand with words, they understand with action."

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