The war's outstanding woman reporter: Helen Hiett

              The War's Outstanding Woman Reporter


HELEN HIETT
ONLY WOMAN TO WIN HEADLINERS' AWARD FOR BEST EXCLUSIVE RADIO REPORTING OF A NEWS EVENT


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IRST and only woman ever to win the Headliners' Award for radio reporting, Helen Hiett gained and has maintained the right to the title of The War's Outstanding Woman Reporter.  Miss Hiett spent six thrilling years covering European news, first as a reporter at the League of Nations, later as NBC foreign correspondent in France, Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar.  During Hitler's rise to domination of Germany, she worked in a Nazi girls' labor camp, observing the indoctrination of German youth with this new ideology that has disrupted world peace.  Since her return to the United States in the spring of 1941, Miss Hiett has been heard daily on a coast-to-coast network in a radio commentary on the news as seen through the eyes of a reporter who has lived it.  A brilliant speaker and a keen student of international affairs, educated in top European Universities, her lectures vividly illustrate the problems confronting the United States in our fight for freedom.





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WHO IS HELEN HIETT?



She has a mind that crackles like the stinging lash of a whip … intuitive, resourceful, dynamic, accurate to a fault, Helen Hiett has the magic faculty of winning friends where-ever her voice goes — because — SHE SPEAKS WITH AUTHORITY AND UNDERSTANDING!




Her sharp, incisive newscasts are heard five mornings a week — from Gloucester to the Golden Gate — and create comment and discussion which continues long after she has signed off.




Fast mentally … but with a forgiving heart … which is perhaps another way of saying that Helen Hiett is essentially human, wherein lies her greatest charm.




She received the Headliners' Club Award for her astonishing world-wide radio news beat … reporting Gibraltar's heaviest bombing of the war — and was the only woman reporter inside Britain's famous Rock as stick after stick of bombs fell from Germany's diving Stukas.




A typical American from the Middle West (Pekin, Illinois, to be exact) who, after graduating from the University of Chicago in 1934, won a scholarship to Geneva.  In 1935, she became a Research Assistant at the Geneva Research Centre, which gave her entrée to the press room and the famous Salle des Pas Perdus of the League of Nations.  This enabled her to meet, in an official capacity, the most distinguished diplomats of every country in the world.  Since then she has travelled widely through Europe and North Africa, covered the Spanish Civil War, studied in Rome, Paris and London, and learned four languages.




She is a 
top-flight
 radio reporter, who slogged along the dusty roads of France with the terror-stricken population in the mass migration of hundreds of thousands of refugees.  She continued her broadcasts of conquest while the Nazis moved in — to Paris, and Bordeau — escaping only by driving her car through the oncoming Nazi motorized divisions.




Truly one who has lived through the war's most terrorizing incidents — lived to return home to interpret the war to Americans and to give the people here an appreciation of our role not only in the war, but, in helping to rebuild the world after the war is over.




Helen Hiett is the war's outstanding woman reporter.





Helen Hiett's Lecture Topics



BEHIND THE WAR'S COMMUNIQUES
 — People who live the headlines that other people make.


THIS IS OUR CHALLENGE
 — The hope of Youth and the task that faces us.


WOMEN ON ALL FRONTS
 — Our job in the present, and our stake in the future.




Thank you for sending Helen Hiett to us.  She did a perfectly marvelous job and her applause was certainly the equivalent of five curtain calls in the theatre.  Her material was excellent and she gave it with such sincerity and clarity that I feel sure that she will go far as an outstanding platform personality.




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George V. Denny, Director, Town Hall, N. Y. C.




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