The late New York Times journalist Herbert L. Matthews is now an almost forgotten name, except, perhaps, among journalism students and those who remember the earliest days of the Cuban Revolution...Matthews’s front-page story altered the fortunes of Castro and his beleaguered rebels. Opponents of Batista’s regime smuggled copies of the banned paper into Cuba, and within a short time Cuba’s people learned that Castro had not been defeated, and that he had more troops and followers than anyone had believed...