Milestones: May 24, 1982

SEEKING DIVORCE. Nancy Lopez Melton, 25, fourth leading money winner in the Ladies Professional Golf Association this year; from Tim Melton, 33, Houston TV sports announcer; on grounds of conflict of personalities; in Stafford, Texas.

DIED. Neil Bogart, 39, maverick entertainment mogul whose "ear for the street" made him a millionaire catalyst of the disco-music craze; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Bogart at 27 first corralled the teeny-bopper record market with "bubblegum" music like the indigestible Yummy Yummy Yummy ("I've got love in my tummy"). With his sure instinct for slick commercialization, he...

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