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

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and newspaper editor. 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 '' The Washington Star'' from 1963 to 1975. He was a trustee of the Washington Journalism Center and the Raymond Clapper Memorial Association, sponsor of the

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, 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

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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

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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'', John Ehrlichman 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