Divorced. Tony Bennett, 45, nightclub and jukebox balladeer; by Mrs. Patricia Bennett, 39, a former model; on grounds of desertion; after 19 years of marriage, two children; in Hackensack, NJ. The singer, whose longtime pal, Sandy Grant, gave birth to their daughter last year, was hit to the tune of $92,500 a year in alimony and child support.

Died. Harriet McCormack, 87, wife of former House Speaker John McCormack; of heart disease; in Washington. Summing up his near-legendary relationship with Mrs. McCormack, who gave up a career with the Metropolitan Opera to marry him in 1920, the lanky Boston Democrat once said: "It's all very simple. We're what we were from the first time we met--sweethearts." Avoiding the Washington social whirl, they breakfasted together every morning, never spent a night apart. When she was stricken last year, McCormack refused to leave her side, and occupied an adjoining room at the hospital.

Died. Harry Rogoff, 88, former editor in chief of the nation's leading Yiddish newspaper, the Jewish Daily Forward; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The Socialist-leaning Forward spoke for the horde of immigrants that arrived in New York City after World War I. Under the stewardship of Founder Abe Cahan and then City Editor Rogoff, it helped break Tammany's hold on the Lower East Side and led the city's garment workers into the I.L.G.W.U., meanwhile advising Jewish mothers to keep their kinderle supplied with clean handkerchiefs. The paper boasted a circulation of 225,000 in 1922, but reduced immigration and the assimilation of earlier arrivals gradually lowered it to 41,000 today. In 1964, Rogoff stepped down after 14 years as editor in chief to write a weekly column.

Died. Arthur Spingarn, 93, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1940 to 1966; in Manhattan. Arthur and Joel Spingarn, sons of a well-to-do Jewish tobacco merchant, were so moved by the 1909 Lincoln Day Call--a manifesto of neo-Abolitionist fervor that urged an uplift movement for blacks--that they joined the founders of the N. A. A.C.P. Joel became the group's second president while Arthur headed its national legal committee. Arthur marched in the streets to protest lynchings, and smashed glasses in the Manhattan saloons that discouraged integrated patronage. Before the bench, however, he epitomized judicial restraint and won eleven landmark legal victories before assuming the N.A.A.C.P. presidency upon Joel's death. Eventually he became the target of militants who sought to purge the organization of its white leadership, resigned in 1966 and became honorary president.

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