Newbold Noyes Jr.

Newbold Noyes Jr. (August 10, 1918 – December 18, 1997) was an American publisher, journalist and newspaper editor.

Noyes went from war correspondent in the 1940s to editor in the 1960s. After graduating from Yale University in 1941, Noyes was editor of The Washington Star from 1963 to 1975.[1] A longtime resident of Sorrento, Maine, he was married to Beatrice "Beppie" Noyes (July 20, 1919 – July 3, 2007) an American author and illustrator.[2]

The Noyes family co-owned the Washington Evening Star from 1867 to 1975. His grandfather Frank Brett Noyes 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 Houston businessman. Allbritton in turn sold the paper in 1978 to Time Warner (then known as Time Inc.), which closed it in 1981.[3]

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.[4]

References
  1. Wyatt, Edward (19 December 1997). "Newbold Noyes Jr., 79, Ex-Editor Of The Washington Evening Star". The New York Times.
  2. "Noyes Knows What's Fair, What's Flair". The Ellsworth American. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011.
  3. http://jhowell.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I164&tree=1 Newbold Noyes, Jr,, Howell Family Genealogy Pages
  4. Witness to Power by John Ehrlichman, Simon & Schuster, chapter 17, p 333


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