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For a time, Sylvester Scovel of the New York World was America's best-known journalist, owing to his risky, high-profile assignments that landed him in jail for a month in Cuba in early 1897. Scovel was constantly scheming about becoming rich and famous.
His career fell apart in July 1898, in a fist-swinging encounter with the commander of U.S. military forces in Cuba.
 
 
 

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