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About Thomas Ewing Noyes, USN
Thomas Ewing Noyes, 67, who had been a Broadway actor and producer, a Washington Star reporter and editorial writer and a radio commentator, died of congestive heart failure Oct. 28 at Georgetown University Hospital. He lived in Washington. After college, World War II naval service and his years on Broadway, Mr. Noyes returned to his native Washington in 1964. For the next three years, he was a general assignment reporter for what was then the Washington Evening Star, a newspaper of which his family was part owner. From 1967 to 1972, he was a Star editorial writer. During the mid- to late 1970s, he was a consultant to the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Public Radio, and in the early 1980s he had a daily radio talk and interview program on WRC. He also, until recently, had been a weekly commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" program. He also contributed articles to The Washington Post, the Washingtonian magazine, and U.S. Information Agency publications. He remained active in drama, performing on radio and with the New Playwrights Theater here. At the time of his death, he was on the board of the National Music Theater Network. Mr. Noyes was a graduate of Yale University and was a Navy flight instructor during World War II. He made his Broadway acting debut in 1950 and appeared in such plays as "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" and "Billy Budd." In 1953, he co-produced "Take a Giant Step," the first of several Broadway works he co-produced with Roger Stevens. Their plays included the 1954 "Portrait of a Lady," starring Jennifer Jones, and the 1957 "Copper and Brass," starring Nancy Walker. In 1958, Mr. Noyes left the stage and turned to print journalism. Until 1964, when he returned here and joined the Star, he was a general assignment reporter with Long Island Press. He was a member of the Yale Club of Washington. For more than 20 years, he played the role of Santa Claus at the annual Christmas party for the children of St. Ann's Infant & Maternity Home. He noticed that often, tiny children initially were ill at ease around an imposing Santa Claus in flowing beard and scarlet suit. His solution to that age-old phenomenon illustrated his stage skills. When the children "met Santa," he was asleep. The children awakened a seemingly abashed, and less imposing, Santa to begin the festivities. His marriage to the former Ann Lilienthal ended in divorce. Survivors include his wife, the former Elizabeth Ross, whom he married in 1952 and who lives in Washington; three children by his second marriage, Christopher Ross Noyes of Lexington, Mass., Alexander Ewing Noyes of New York City and Victoria Noyes Starbuck of Washington; a brother, Newbold Noyes, a former editor of the Washington Star who lives in Sorrento, Maine; a half-sister, Ellen Stone Devine, also of Sorrento; and three grandchildren.
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Thomas Ewing Noyes, USN's Timeline
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October 24, 1922
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Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States
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| 1989 |
October 28, 1989
Age 67
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Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States
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