LC control no. | n 85208301 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Hollingworth, Clare |
Variant(s) | Huo-lin-wo-ssu, Kʻo-lai-erh |
Located | Hong Kong (China) |
Birth date | 1911-10-10 |
Death date | 2017-01-10 |
Place of birth | Knighton (England) |
Place of death | Hong Kong (China) |
Field of activity | Journalism |
Affiliation | University of Hong Kong |
Profession or occupation | Journalists |
Found in | Her Mao and the men against him, 1985: t.p. (Clare Hollingworth) Mao Tse-tung ho tʻa ti tui shou men, 1993: t.p. verso (Kʻo-lai-erh Huo-lin-wo-ssu, of U.K.) p. 3, 1st group (teaches at Univ. of Hong Kong) Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 10, 2017 (in early 1939, peace activist Clare Hollingworth arrived on the Polish-German border to aid Jews and other refugees fleeing from the Sudetenland, newly annexed by Nazi Germany; was hired as a part-time correspondent in Katowice, Poland, for the London Daily Telegraph; landed one of the biggest journalistic scoops of the 20th century: Hitler's imminent invasion of Poland, marking the outbreak of World War II; so began a five-decade career in which Ms. Hollingworth covered hostilities from Algeria to Vietnam, from Greece to Yemen; died Jan. 10 [2017] at 105, in Hong Kong, where she had lived since the 1980s; born in Knighton, England, on Oct. 10, 1911) |