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Until a Congressional committee, poking around a swamp)' underbrush and prodding under stones, pried him into view in 1943, John Porter Monroe was just another Washington fixer. In the unkind daylight, Fixer Monroe swelled into quite a big bug. His "big red house on R Street" became notorious. That was where Monroe entertained industrialists who wanted war contracts and governmental bigwigs who had influence in handing them out. After much headline hullabaloo, the committee finally decided that slick Mr, Monroe was a nonpoisonous...
...added a new form of mortification to the lashes, thorns and vigils with which they traditionally atone for sin. The new humiliation: a lawsuit, the first in Penitente history. It threatened to bring some of the closest Penitente secrets out of the windowless adobe moradas ("purple houses") into the daylight of a civil court in Old Las Vegas...
Best and most revealing picture was The Artist Looks at Nature (lent by Chicago's Art Institute-see cut), which showed Sheeler in the daylight drawing a nighttime interior. The surrounding spring landscape was as neat and clean as a Quaker meetinghouse...
...infantry captain in World War I, Secretary Patterson won the Distinguished Service Cross for a courageous daylight patrol...
...tons per sq. mi., London's diligent Smoke Abatement Society is by no means satisfied. For one thing, deaths from respiratory diseases increase during foggy weather. But, as a Smoke Abatement spokesman unequivocally stated: "The most injurious effect of fog is more subtle-in obstructing sunlight and daylight...