Newbold Noyes Jr. (August 10, 1918 – December 18, 1997) was an American

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and

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. Noyes went from war correspondent in the 1940s to editor in the 1960s. After graduating from

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in 1941, Noyes was editor of ''

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'' from 1963 to 1975. He was a trustee of the Washington Journalism Center and the Raymond Clapper Memorial Association, sponsor of the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award, presented to "... any Washington-based daily newspaper reporter whose work most closely approximated the ideals of fair and painstaking reporting, and the good craftsmanship of Raymond Clapper." A longtime resident of

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, he was married to Beatrice "Beppie" Noyes (July 20, 1919 – July 3, 2007) an American

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and illustrator. The Noyes family co-owned the Washington ''Evening Star'' from 1867 to 1975. His grandfather

Frank Brett Noyes Frank Brett Noyes (July 7, 1863 - December 1, 1948) was president of the ''Washington Evening Star'', a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C., and a founder of the Associated Press. He was a son of the ''Star'' publisher Crosby ...

served as president of the ''Star''. His father, Newbold Noyes, Sr., served as associate editor of the paper. In 1975, control of the ''Star''s parent company was sold to Joe L. Allbritton, a

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businessman. Allbritton in turn sold the paper in 1978 to

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(then known as Time Inc.), which closed it in 1981. In his 1982 book ''Witness to Power'',

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discusses a letter from Noyes to President Richard Nixon sent in March 1973. According to Ehrlichman, if the president had responded to the letter differently, it could have been the catalyst for a different outcome for the Nixon presidency.

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1918 births 1997 deaths American male journalists American newspaper editors People from Hancock County, Maine Noyes family Yale University alumni 20th-century American journalists {{US-journalist-1910s-stub