Dale Thorn
Jesse Dale Thorn, usually known as Dale Thorn or as J. Dale Thorn (October 7, 1942 – May 8, 2014), was a journalist and professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who was the first press secretary during the 1970s to then Governor Edwin Edwards, a Democrat.
Biography
A native of Brandon in Rankin County, Mississippi, Thorn was reared in West Monroe and graduated in 1960 from Ouachita Parish High School in Monroe. Thorn enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, with service from 1960 to 1964. Thereafter, he obtained his undergraduate degree in Journalism from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, then known as Northeast Louisiana State College, and his master's in journalism from Louisiana State University, where he was later a professor. He subsequently obtained a Ph.D. in higher education administration from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.
Thorn's newspaper career began at the Monroe News-Star, then the Monroe Morning World, where he reported on government, politics, and the state capital. He subsequently was an editor and capital correspondent for The Shreveport Times. Both publications were then owned by the family of the late John D. Ewing. Thorn became Edwards's press secretary when Edwards was U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 7th congressional district, since disbanded and merged into Louisiana's 3rd congressional district. He continued as the press spokesman well into the second term as governor and in that capacity became acquainted with many of the leading journalists in the state. Thorn once observed that the southern press in the 1960s rarely reported on crimes against African Americans:"The metro press really didn't cover that type of thing." A case in point was the burning death of Frank Morris, who operated a shoe repair shop in Ferriday in Concordia Parish, an unsolved racially motivated killing.
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Thorn (dog)
Thorn was a dog who received the Dickin Medal in 1945 from the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals for bravery in service during the Second World War.
The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of the Victoria Cross.
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Thorn (comic strip)
Thorn was a college comic strip created by Jeff Smith at the Ohio State University.
History
In 1982, Jeff Smith enrolled at the Ohio State University to study cartooning. During his time there, he wrote and illustrated Thorn. The eponymous heroine was modeled after his future wife, Vijaya Iyer, who he met at the University. The Bone cousins, Fone Bone and Phoney Bone, were based on his childhood drawings. In 1983, a compilation, currently out of print, titled Thorn: Tales From The Lantern was published, and was limited to 1,000 copies.
In 1986, Smith submitted some strips to newspapers in a failed attempt to get the strip syndicated. According to interviews with Smith, the newspaper syndicates approved of Thorn, but wanted to make several changes, some of which included dropping the Great Red Dragon and Thorn Harvestar, and having the Bone cousins "think out loud" in a style reminiscent of Garfield and Peanuts. Several of the strips formed the basis for its successor, Bone.
Thorn (Marvel Comics)
Thorn is a fictional supervillain, and enemy of the Marvel Comics antihero the Punisher. He was created by Chuck Dixon and John Romita, Jr., and first appeared in The Punisher War Zone Vol. 1, #1 (March 1992).
Publication history
Thorn debuted as Salvatore "Sal" Carbone in The Punisher War Zone Vol. 1, #1. Given superhuman abilities and amnesia by a near-death experience in The Punisher War Zone Vol. 1, #3, the character rechristened himself "Thorn" in The Punisher War Zone Vol. 1, #5.
Thorn received a profile in Marvel Encyclopedia #5, and a card ("Punisher vs. Thorn") in Series IV of the Marvel Universe Cards.
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Wanting to eliminate the Carbones, a crime family situated in Brooklyn, the Punisher infiltrated the group with the aid of a petty criminal named Mickey Fondozzi. The Carbones were led by Julius, whose second in-command was his brother, Salvatore. While Julius welcomed Mickey and the Punisher (who had adopted the alias "Johnny Tower") into the organization, Sal disliked the two, and was suspicious of their motives, correctly assuming that they were sabotaging the Carbones' operations.
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