Monday, Apr. 15, 1974

Born. To Philip F. Berrigan, 50, peace activist and former Josephite priest, and his wife and onetime fellow federal-prison inmate Elizabeth McAlister, 34, former Sacred Heart nun and also a peace activist: their first child, a girl; in Baltimore. The baby was born at Jonah House, the pacifist commune where her parents now live.

Died. Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou, 62, President of the French Republic since 1969 (see THE WORLD).

Died. Harold Vincent (Hal) Boyle, 63, Associated Press writer for 30 years, whose daily columns chronicling the lives of ordinary people appeared in nearly 500 papers; of a massive heart attack following contraction of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ("Lou Gehrig's disease"); in Manhattan. Boyle joined the A.P. as a copy boy in Kansas City in 1928, advanced to editor and foreign correspondent and won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his war dispatches from Europe. His homey, highly personal column was born in Italy in 1943, when he began reporting the experiences of G.I.s at the front. After the war Boyle became a constant traveler, filing stories with datelines from 66 countries on six continents. All told, he wrote nearly 8,000 columns.

Died. Richard Howard Stafford Grossman, 66, brilliant British leftist; of cancer of the liver; in Banbury, England. The burly intellectual, famed for his trenchant criticism of British society and politics, went to Parliament as a Laborite in 1945, later served in Prime Minister Harold Wilson's first Cabinet and as leader of the House of Commons. From 1970 to 1972, he edited the New Statesman, the influential left-wing weekly to which he had contributed for years.

Died. Frank Smithwick Hogan, 72, Manhattan's tough, scrupulously honest "Mr. District Attorney" for 32 years; following a stroke and surgery for lung cancer; in Manhattan. Born to Irish immigrant parents. Hogan worked his way through Columbia University law school arid in 1935 joined the staff of New York City's special prosecutor Thomas Dewey in an antimob crusade that resulted in the conviction of racketeer "Lucky" Luciano. When Dewey became D.A. of New York County, Hogan stayed on as his assistant, stepping up when Dewey quit in 1941. Though modest and low-keyed in public, Hogan brought to trial an impressive gallery of offenders including basketball fixers, TV quiz-show cheats and many corrupt public officials. He resigned last December because of poor health. Only the month before, he had been re-elected to an unprecedented ninth term.

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