As German tanks encircled the Polish town of Katowice, rookie British
newspaper reporter Clare Hollingworth picked up the phone and dialed the
British Embassy. An official there didn't believe what she told him, so
she dangled the phone out the window so he could hear the ominous
rumbling for himself.
"Listen!" she implored. "Can't you hear it?"
Hollingworth was 27, and just a week into her job with the Daily Telegraph of London. She had the scoop of a lifetime: World War II had just begun.