A precursor to tabloids such as the National Enquirer, Clein won the Miami Life weekly in a poker game in 1923.
Clein was a prize fighter who moved from southern Georgia in the early 1920s, started up the press of the defunct paper and wrote most of the editorial content for the next 40 years.
Ruebin Clein, beaten, kicked dolefully through the smoking crucible of what had been his home as the investigators did their work.
"Ruebin Clein laughed shortly, waved a hand at his burned-up newspaper: the collected works, the blackened roasted books, charred remains of yesterday's news, shrieking in the night, breathing plumes of poison; "take your pick," he said, "take your pick."
Clein broke Miami Beach Mayor Mel Richard's nose at a political rally and beat up a handful of his supporters.