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The DC Traveler

March 29th, 2007

Meet John Doe

In 1941, Academy award-winning director Frank Capra (It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Lost Horizon) directed Meet John Doe, a film about an aggressive newspaperwoman who, as a parting shot to a depression-era downsizing, files a false story about an unemployed “John Doe”. 
The factious Doe threatens to commit suicide by throwing himself […]

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November 18th, 2006

“Bah! Humbug!” Tis the Season…

In 1843 Charles Dickens first published his little Christmas book titled A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.   Within the first week, over 6,000 copies were sold making it an instant success and may have helped restore some of the traditions of Christmas and the holiday spirit during that time. 
Dickens’s miserly main […]

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