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Louis B. Seltzer

Job title
editor
First name
Louis B.
Last name
Seltzer

SELTZER, LOUIS B. (19 Sept. 1897-2 Apr. 1980), long-time editor of the CLEVELAND PRESS, was born in Cleveland to Chas. Alden and Ella Albers Seltzer, and quit school to work as an office boy at the CLEVELAND LEADER at 12, quickly becoming reporter and writer of a Sunday column, but being fired 2 years later.

A year later, Seltzer was a police reporter for the Cleveland Press, in 1916 being named city editor, but, feeling his lack of experience, voluntarily resigned after 3 months, becoming political editor.

Employer
Cleveland Press
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Newbold Noyes

Job title
editor
First name
Newbold
Last name
Noyes
Location
Washington, DC

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

Newbold Noyes Jr., 79, Ex-Editor Of The Washington Evening Star

By Edward Wyatt

December 19, 1997

Newbold Noyes Jr., who as editor of The Washington Evening Star from 1963 to 1975 was the last member of four generations of his family to lead the newspaper, died yesterday in Sorrento, Me. He was 79.

Mr. Noyes had heart problems, said a son, Newbold Noyes 3d.

Employer
The Evening Star
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1