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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.

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Sylvan H. Meyer -- Editor, 79

Correction Appended

Sylvan H. Meyer, a newspaper editor and outspoken white supporter of civil rights in Georgia in the 1950's and 60's, died on April 8 at his home in Dahlonega, Ga. He was 79.

Mr. Meyer, who was chairman of the Georgia advisory committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission from 1958 to 1965, advocated peaceful integration, a stand that led to death threats against him and his family.

William J. McGill, distinguished psychologist, author and president of Columbia University during the decade of the 1970s, died Sunday, Oct. 19, in La Jolla, Calif. He was 75 years old. He had suffered a severe heart attack last Wednesday and was a patient in John M. and Sally B. Thornton Hospital of the University of California, San Diego. He had been chancellor of UCSD from 1968 to 1970, before joining Columbia, and had been an adjunct professor there again for the past 17 years. 

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Robert J. Donovan, 90, the Author of 'PT-109'

By Anthony Ramirez

August 10, 2003

Robert J. Donovan, a ''shoe leather'' newspaper reporter without a college education who became a Washington correspondent, best-selling author and presidential historian, died on Friday at Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Fla. A longtime resident of Washington, he moved to Florida in 2001. He was 90.

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A native of Plainview, TX, Price Day (1907-1978) was graduated from Princeton University in 1928. Following a variegated career as a freelance cartoonist and writer of science fiction & children's stories (most notably the young adult novel Well, About the Penguin [Simon & Schuster, 1939]) and journeyman reporter with the Fort Lauderdale News, he briefly served as city editor of the Fort Lauderdale Times in 1942.

John Cowles Jr., 82, Dies; Led Minneapolis Newspapers

by Bruce Weber, March 19, 2012, The New York Times

John Cowles Jr., a Minneapolis newspaper executive and philanthropist whose support for arts, sports and entertainment helped elevate the Twin Cities' cultural community to national prominence, died on Saturday at home in Minneapolis. He was 82.

The cause was lung cancer, his son Jay said.

Wallace Carroll, Publisher And Editor, Is Dead at 95

Wallace Carroll, a retired newspaper editor and publisher who campaigned against the Vietnam War and led his paper to a Pulitzer Prize for environmental reporting, died on Sunday in a nursing home in Winston-Salem, N.C. He was 95.