Died. Ann Scott, 45, key legislative strategist of the National Organization for Women; of cancer; in Baltimore. A poet and college English teacher, Scott fought discrimination against women in academe. Elected a vice president of NOW in 1971, she was credited with gaining the support of Common Cause and the AFL-CIO for the Equal Rights Amendment, which she campaigned for virtually until the day of her death.

Died. Norman Treigle, 47, New York City Opera's deeply resonant bass since 1953; of gastrointestinal bleeding; in New Orleans. A devout Baptist, Treigle once sang gospel songs with a touring evangelist known as "the Chaplain of Bourbon Street"; his first lead role at City Opera, a guilt-haunted, Bible-pounding minister in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, was based on those early experiences. Treigle's gaunt face and spidery figure virtually typecast him for such roles as Mephistopheles in Boito's and Gounod's versions of the Faust legend, and as the four villains in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann.

Died. Luigi Dallapiccola, 71, Italian twelve-tone composer; of heart disease; in Florence. In 1939, Dallapiccola adopted Arnold Schoenberg's dodecaphonic method of composing and with it produced complex, passionate vocal and instrumental music in which he tried to express Europe's suffering. He became known in the U.S. through such well-received works as his opera The Prisoner, and his several stints as instructor in composition at Tanglewood. Mass., and elsewhere.

Died. George E. Marshall, 83, prolific Hollywood director; in Los Angeles. Hired as an extra at Universal Studios in 1912, Marshall became successively a bit player, prop boy, makeup man, film editor, cameraman, and director of hundreds of serials, farces and westerns. Among his credits: Tom Mix flicks of the '20s, You Can 't Cheat an Honest Man (1939), and How the West Was Won(1963).

Died. Raymond Moley, 88, founding member of Franklin Roosevelt's Brain Trust; in Phoenix. So powerful was Moley as F.D.R.'s closest adviser that an early New Deal joke had a Senator asking the President for a favor--an appointment with Moley. The Brain Trust that he organized shaped Roosevelt's historic policies, but finding himself opposed to massive expansion of federal authority, Moley left the Administration in September 1933 and later broke with the Democratic Party. As author and Newsweek columnist, Moley backed Republicans Willkie, Goldwater and Nixon for President.

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