Jim Horne, a Familiar Face in Ads From the 1950s, Dies at 91

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/business/media/25horne.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries ^ | January 24, 2009 | By BRUCE WEBER

[Arthur McGowan]

The guy in the "Oh, no!" photo.

[eyedigress]

Good point. 91 is a healthy life, prayers to his family.

[mountn man]

Kinda looks/ed like Howdy Doody.

[matt1234]

Now, we have sissy boys like Matt Damon.

[Rastus]

F.A.G.

[B-Chan]

May he rest in peace. His memory will live on in FR Lore.

[WildcatClan]

RIP

[Impy]

Aw crap. ;-(

I’ve always wondered who that was.

I wonder where the pics originated from.

And the cup of shut the F up pics too, taken from some Army ad I guess.

[fieldmarshaldj]

And we’ll never know what happens to Looter Guy. We should offer a big reward for him to come forward and expose himself.

[Dosa26]

Looter guy has become like an official icon of the flood. He should really step up. I will personally sponser a 12 of heinikkan if he does.

[sushiman]

Only the white guys are sissy boys .

[Lancey Howard]

My all-time favorite FR pic.
May Mr. Horne rest in peace and may God comfort his family.

[Impy]

As you said before he could make fortune.

I sure hope he didn’t drown or something.

Well they found the Indian? girl with green eyes who appeared on a magazine cover as girl. Perhaps there is still hope for Looty.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Afghani, I believe. And in that instance, seeing the prematurely aged and overweight person she became, that's probably one mystery that should've been left alone. It wrecked the magic. Looter Guy doesn't have to worry about his girlish looks spoiling.

[Rastus]

Obama ain’t exactly Charles Atlas. :-)

[Impy]

Yeah she looked old for a 13-year old. I'd have guessed she was 20.

She looked really old for a 30 year old when they found her.

Life's not fun in mountain villages I guess.

[Impy]

So was that taken from a Tylenol ad or something?

[Rastus]

This is all the article has to say about it:

Few, if any, of his photographs still strike a familiar chord. Well, maybe one does: a jokey shot taken in 1953 (whose rights he signed away), showing him with a sour, headachey expression of generic woe; it has been used dozens of times, even in the last decade, in ads for aspirin, tax services, hangover remedies and other stress relievers. His wife said it didn’t bother him that this was the image that survived.

[Rastus]

And we’ll never know what happens to Looter Guy. We should offer a big reward for him to come forward and expose himself.

Hold on there, pardner! Let's rephrase that! The last thing I want is to see Lootie expose himself!

[Rastus]

She sort of looks like Frodo in the original shot.

[uglybiker]

Different article.
One you don't have to log in to read.

Jim Horne, a Familiar Face in Ads From the 1950s, Dies at 91