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Experience. Letter from Grosvenor Square also throws a good deal of light on the obscurities of Winant's character and life. When he left college (Princeton 1913), he studied with General Arthur L. Conger, afterwards head of G-2 under Pershing. General Conger was one of the greatest U.S. authorities on Prussian militarism, and a man General Marshall considered to have been among the best brains in the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ambassador's Report | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...Conger taught Winant the requirements of modern warfare-manpower, factory output, raw materials, foodstuffs, and the then almost unknown science of psychological warfare. Winant spent two summers in the Shenandoah Valley, going over Stonewall Jackson's campaigns. Later he paid his own way to Paris and enlisted as a private in the A.E.F. (He came home a squadron commander in the Air Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ambassador's Report | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...German reporters came in, dripping wet, from a rainswept rooftop that overlooked the prison wall. To the U.P.'s Clinton Conger and the ü German DANA Agency, who had posted them, they reported seeing groups of helmeted men moving from the jail to the gymnasium. They had heard a bell toll, heard a crashing sound repeated only six times. The Germans surmised that the eleven Nazis had probably been hanged in pairs - but Conger decided to wait before filing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Vigil in Nurnberg | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Omar Dwight Conger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The University Counts Its Dead of the Second World War | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

Born. To John Steinbeck, 42, author, and Gwyn Conger Steinbeck, 28, his second wife: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Thom. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 14, 1944 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

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