Newbold Noyes, Jr.

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

Biography

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 Star from 1963 to 1975. A longtime resident of Sorrento, Maine, he was married to Beatrice "Beppie" Noyes (July 20, 1919 – July 3, 2007) an American author and illustrator.

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.

Newbold Noyes, Jr. was the author of an interesting letter to President Richard Nixon in March, 1973. In the opinion of John Ehrlichman, if the president had responded differently, it could have been the catalyst for a different outcome for the Nixon presidency.