Divorced. Huntington Hartford, 48, grandson of the founder of the A. & P., whose fortune is estimated at $500 million; by Marjorie Steele Hartford, 31, who met her husband while peddling cigarettes in a Hollywood nightclub; after eleven years of marriage, two children; in a secret New York City proceeding that netted Mrs. Hartford and her children $2,500,000. Grounds: adultery.

Died. Cedric Adams, 58, portly, nasal-voiced commentator, folksy columnist (In This Corner) for the Minneapolis Star for 25 years, who once simultaneously ran 54 radio shows, seven columns and eight television programs a week on chatter, news, and an uncanny ability to catnap at will; of a heart attack; in Austin, Minn.

Died. Russell S. ("Rusty") Callow, 70, dean of U.S. rowing coaches, who began his remarkable coaching career at the University of Washington, later quit after 23 years as coach at the University of Pennsylvania because the Schuylkill River "was too thick to drink and too thin to plow,'' won his greatest triumph as coach of U.S. Naval Academy sophomores who won the Olympic rowing championship in 1952; of a heart attack; in Phoenix, Ariz.

Died. Dominic ("Nick") LaRocca, 71, whose all-white Original Dixieland Jazz Band was among the first to walk the beat from New Orleans to Chicago in 1916, and who wrote Tiger Rag, Fidgety Feet and other jazz classics made famous by his blaring cornet; of congestive heart failure; in New Orleans.

Died. George de Cuevas, 75, Chilean-born, part-Danish, Spanish-titled Marquis de Piedrablanca de Guana, who married John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter in 1927, became international society's favorite ballet impresario and one of its freest-spending party givers, renounced his title, but not his way of life, when he became a U.S. citizen in 1940; of cancer; at his villa, Les Delices, in Cannes.

Died. Sterling Morton, 75, art patron and philanthropist, who was board chairman of the salt company founded by his father; after gallstone surgery; in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Died. Percy Aldridge Grainger, 78, lanky, white-shocked Australian-born pianist and folklorist whose fame as a serious artist and the composer of Brigg Fair, Molly on the Shore and Country Gardens was equaled by his fame as a serious eccentric who often hiked to concerts carrying a knapsack, was married in the Hollywood Bowl before a delighted audience of 22,000, abhorred meat, tobacco, coffee, tea and alcohol but adored cheese, raw vegetables and a half-and-half mixture of cold milk and hot water; of cancer; in White Plains, N.Y.

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