--- description: Google dedicated its homepage cartoon to Clare Hollingworth, the first journalist to report the outbreak of World War II title: Google Doodle Celebrates Clare Hollingworth image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36611f19b1ae31e1/6988e12b196cf416690423f9/clare-hollingworths-106th-birthday-5818974150328320-2x-1.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Google Doodle Celebrates Legendary War Correspondent Clare Hollingworth by [Casey Quackenbush](/author/casey-quackenbush/) ## Casey Quackenbush Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 10, 2017 5:44 AM CUT  by [Casey Quackenbush](/author/casey-quackenbush/) ## Casey Quackenbush Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 10, 2017 5:44 AM CUT Brows furrowed and fingers [feverishly](https://www.google.com/doodles/clare-hollingworths-106th-birthday "undefined") slamming away at a typewriter, an illustrated Clare Hollingworth adorns today’s Google homepage in honor of what would have been the trailblazing journalist’s 106th birthday. Claiming one of the industry’s longest and most successful careers as a war correspondent, the memory of Clare Hollingworth lives as nothing short of a legend. During the British reporter’s first week on the job for _The Telegraph_, the then 27-year-old got what’s widely known as the scoop of the century: the outbreak of World War II. In late August of 1939, Hollingworth borrowed a car from a friend and ventured across the Polish boarder into Nazi Germany alone. On her return, she saw hundreds of German tanks stationed in a valley. Three days later on Sept. 1, Germany invaded Poland. When the British embassy in Warsaw responded with disbelief, she held the phone receiver out the window so they could hear it for themselves. **Read more:** [_The Correspondent Who Scooped the World_](http://time.com/4520940/clare-hollingworth-war-correspondent-birthday-hong-kong/ "undefined") Hollingworth went on to lead an eminent and peripatetic career, covering the front lines of the Algerian War, exposing the double agent Kim Philby of the Cambridge Five, and being the first to interview the Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. Hollingworth [passed away ](http://time.com/4630092/clare-hollingworth-obituary/ "undefined")in January in Hong Kong. While she may not have made it to her 106th birthday, her memory will survive the ages. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4975533/google-clare-hollingworth-birthday-cartoon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4975533/google-clare-hollingworth-birthday-cartoon/"},"headline":"Google Doodle Celebrates Legendary War Correspondent Clare Hollingworth","datePublished":"2017-10-10T05:44:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:53.002Z","description":"The British journalist was the first to report the outbreak of World War II","url":"https://time.com/4975533/google-clare-hollingworth-birthday-cartoon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","History","Google","World","World War II","Journalist","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36611f19b1ae31e1/6988e12b196cf416690423f9/clare-hollingworths-106th-birthday-5818974150328320-2x-1.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Casey Quackenbush","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/casey-quackenbush/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36611f19b1ae31e1/6988e12b196cf416690423f9/clare-hollingworths-106th-birthday-5818974150328320-2x-1.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"clare-hollingworths-106th-birthday-5818974150328320-2x (1)","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4975533/google-clare-hollingworth-birthday-cartoon/","name":"Google Doodle Celebrates Legendary War Correspondent Clare Hollingworth"}}]}] ```