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  George Woodbridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Woodbridge's drawing of a Bacon's Rebellion soldier in 1675
George Woodbridge (1930-January 19, 2004) was an American illustrator known for his exhaustive research and historical accuracy.
Woodbridge died of emphysema January 19, 2004, at the age of 73.
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 Eighth Generation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
George Morgan Woodbridge was born on 4 Oct 1814.
Maria Prudence Woodbridge was born on 10 Mar 1845.
George Morgan Woodbridge was born on 4 Jul 1858.
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 Guardian | George Woodbridge
George Woodbridge, who has died aged 73 from emphysema, was one of the famous "gang of idiots" who worked on Mad magazine.
Woodbridge was introduced to Mad by Nick Meglin, who would go on to become senior editor of the magazine.
Woodbridge was one of the founders of the Brigade of the American Revolution in 1962 and well known in re-enactment circles.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4856804-111261,00.html   (440 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / George Woodbridge, 73; illustrator for MAD magazine
At the time of his death, she said, "he was producing a set of illustrations on Lewis and Clark and had started a group of historical illustrations for a website" he was developing.
Woodbridge began his work as a freelance artist for MAD in 1957 -- five years after its inception -- and was featured in virtually every issue.
Woodbridge's most memorable pieces was for the 1965 sports satire "43-Man Squamish," written by Tom Koch about a nonsensical field game.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/01/24/george_woodbridge_73_illustrator_for_mad_magazine?mode=PF   (343 words)

  
 Boston.com / Your Life / Health & Fitness / Mental Health / Teresa, Interrupted
George had grown up in Fields Corner with a father who beat him and neighborhood kids who taunted him.
For three hours on Friday, June 8, with Teresa at the hospital, George held the rest of his family at gunpoint, blaming his wife for not disciplining their six kids, complaining that he lost his last job because he had to watch them.
Later that day, around midnight, as his 36-year-old wife and the five children slept in their cramped bedrooms, George put a pillow over each of their heads and, one by one, slipped his gun beneath it to muffle the sound.
www.boston.com /yourlife/health/mental/articles/2004/07/18/teresa_interrupted?pg=2   (554 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: George Woodbridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Nick Meglin was on the editorial staff of MAD Magazine for almost half a century.
There appears to have been a variant of the haversack used by peddlers and farmers that was of a more rectangular shape, but more research is needed to document their use by the militia.
George Woodbridge illustration from George Neumann, Collector's Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, p.
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 USATODAY.com - Mad magazine illustrator Woodbridge dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
NEW YORK (AP) — George Woodbridge, an illustrator for Mad magazine for nearly 50 years whose exquisitely detailed pen-and-ink drawings were featured in nearly every issue, has died.
Woodbridge died of emphysema Tuesday, said his wife, Deborah Woodbridge.
Woodbridge's delicate cross-hatched illustrations were the result of careful research, particularly in rendering historical scenes.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-01-22-george-woodbridge_x.htm   (263 words)

  
 CNN.com - Mad magazine artist Woodbridge dead - Jan. 23, 2004
George Woodbridge, an illustrator for Mad magazine for nearly 50 years whose exquisitely detailed pen-and-ink drawings were featured in nearly every issue, has died.
A native of New York, Woodbridge began as a freelance artist for Mad in 1957, five years after the satirical magazine's inception.
One of Woodbridge's most memorable illustrations was for the 1965 sports satire "43-Man Squamish," about a nonsensical game in which the equipment included shepherd's crooks and diving flippers.
www.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/books/01/22/obit.woodbridge.ap   (299 words)

  
 George Helsham 1806-1836 Doctor of Woodbridge Suffolk Partner of Mr Lynn
Forby took dear George to London and, after putting him in communication with our various friends there, left him with Mr.
Poor Anne Bolton's ague returning, we went to Cromer where dear George was with us, but the sea air had no effect and so we travelled by easy journeys in a hired carriage, in the first week of November, to Hastings.
We can assume that George's sister Elizabeth joined him a short while later and it was probably in Woodbridge that she met her future husband Richard Jones, to whom she became married in August 1837, a year after George had died.
www.jjhc.info /helshamgeorge1836.htm   (685 words)

  
 George Woodbridge - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
George Woodbridge was an American illustrator known for his exhaustive research and historical accuracy.
Born 1930 in Flushing, New York, he studied illustration at Manhattan's School of Visual Arts.
George Woodbridge, External link, 2004 deaths, American illustrators and MAD Magazine.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/George_Woodbridge   (303 words)

  
 Haddan to compete in sweepstakes race 10/17/02
The rest of Woodbridge's boys team is slated to compete in the Division II race at 10:45 p.m.
The Woodbridge girls squad will also be going for a title at the meet, trying to capture the sweepstakes team championship.
Woodbridge was ranked eighth in the latest county poll, but seems to be hitting its stride after turning in an impressive performance at the Sea View League cluster meet last week.
www.irvineworldnews.com /Cstories/oct17/haddan.html   (587 words)

  
 MTV.com - Movies - George Woodbridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
British actor George Woodbridge both looked and sounded like a rural tavern patron, thus was cast accordingly in many of his films.
Woodbridge's red-faced characters in movies like Green for Danger (1946), The October Man (1947), and An Alligator Named Daisy (1955) always looked as though they'd just stopped in for a drink after selling their crops and poultry at market.
George Woodbridge was also prominently cast in the international TV success The Forsyte Saga (1967), playing Swithin.
www.mtv.com /movies/person/68038/bio.jhtml   (201 words)

  
 Welcome to Woodbridge, New Jersey -- Our Town Online
Woodbridge Township, with a population of 100,421, is New Jersey's fifth largest municipality.
Woodbridge Township has adopted an ordinance allowing residents to register their name and address with the Township Clerk to be placed on a “Do Not Knock List” that prohibits peddlers, panhandlers, solicitors or canvassers to approach their homes and/or seek personal contact with the occupants of the registered home (see exemptions below).
Have A Heart was established by our Woodbridge Dept. of Health and Human Services in 1995 to address the problem of a traditionally low post-holiday food bank supply and hoping that we can extend our holiday season generosity into the New Year.
www.twp.woodbridge.nj.us   (595 words)

  
 Dudley Family - Descendants of Captain Roger Dudley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
John M Stitler and Catherine F Woodbridge were married on 24 May 1861 in New Buffalo, Berrien, Michigan.
George Clare StJohn was born on 29 Sep 1877 in Simsbury, CT.
George Clare StJohn and Clara Hitchcock Seymour were married on 23 Jun 1906.
home.earthlink.net /~pbkingman4/Dudley/b39.htm   (578 words)

  
 SPENCERTOWN ACADEMY
Woodbridge was a lineal descendant of Rev. John Woodbridge, a nonconformist minister of considerable note in England, who came to this country in 1665.
George Lawrence, Samuel D. Dean, Jacob S. Bump, Dr. Ebenezer Read, and Uel Lawrence were appointed as a building committee, and, after adopting a plan, they contracted with Benjamin Ambler to erect it.
Woodbridge acted as president from 1846 till his death, in 1862.
www.usgennet.org /usa/ny/county/columbia/aust/spencert_town_academy.htm   (582 words)

  
 A Day In The Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Strawberry's Pub 110 Amboy Ave., Woodbridge (732) 634-3131.
Woodbridge Deli 575 Amboy Ave., Woodbridge (732) 636-4848.
Woodbridge Hilton Restaurant 120 South Wood Ave., Iselin (732) 494-6200.
www.injersey.com /day/story/0,2379,843280,00.html   (1605 words)

  
 Runners tested at county championships 10/24/02
With Michael Haddan competing in the sweepstakes race, the rest of the Woodbridge runners were in other Division II events.
Woodbridge's sophomore team won the small-school event, finishing with 83 points to edge Valencia.
Woodbridge came in 10th as a team in the race with 275 points.
www.irvineworldnews.com /Cstories/oct24/xcountry.html   (838 words)

  
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George Wythe's coach will be pulling for rival Radford in the name of a regional playoff berth.
There are a few distasteful duties in life: scrubbing out the bathtub, eating pickled beets and swallowing a dose of castor oil to name a few.
George Washington, Woodbridge and Stonewall Jackson are the other qualifiers.
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 news from me - ARCHIVES
George was in almost every issue until just a few years ago...never flashy but always dependable, and much-loved by his colleagues.
The articles he was assigned to illustrate were chosen with those superb talents in mind." One of those articles, and perhaps George's best-remembered assignment, was a story called "43-Man Squamish" that ran in a 1965 issue and is still hailed as one of the magazine's crowning works.
When I was starting out and they gave me assignments that had to be in color, George was the one who helped me. Even though he was color-blind, he did the most remarkable work in color.
www.newsfromme.com /archives/2004_01_21.html   (1618 words)

  
 Princeton Alumni Weekly: Memorials 1939   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
As a captain in the 773rd Tank Battalion in George Patton’s Third Army in WWII, Woody was awarded the Bronze Star for “meritorious operations” in a division that destroyed 105 enemy positions and 113 tanks.
George and his wife, Margaret Newton, whom he married in 1940, settled in Pelham, N.Y. He believed his most worthwhile activity was his service to Pelham, first as trustee 1967-71, then as mayor until he retired and left Pelham in 1972.
George is survived by his daughter, Linda Antilla; son George III; one granddaughter; five grandsons; and two great-grandchildren.
www.princeton.edu /~paw/memorials/memorials_1930s/memorials_1939.html   (20402 words)

  
 R.I.P. George Woodbridge, 73   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A typical Woodbridge target was the suburban dweller, who progressed over the years from his early-1960's incarnation as a commuter-train-chasing executive in a button-down shirt to his overweight, barbecuing 1970's counterpart clad in polyester and plaid.
One of George Bush senior' closest aides, long-time CIA officer Donald Gregg, writes in today's NYT: Recent reports indicate that Bush administration lawyers, in their struggles to deal with terrorism, wrote memos in 2003 pushing aside longstanding prohibitions on the use of torture by Americans.
If George W. Bush had delegated the pushing aside of Saddam to an underling in the State Department or Defense Department and never mentioned the words "Iraq" or "Saddam" in any speech he might not have glorified being a pissed-off Muslim to such an extent.
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 George Morgan Woodbridge, Marietta,Ohio
George Morgan Woodbridge of Marietta, Ohio, was a son of Dudley Woodbridge.
George Morgan Woodbridge married on May 10, 1844, to Elizabeth Love Hensley, born September 1, 1820; died January 23, 1899.
I need information about their descendants to be included in a revision of the 1923 Culbertson genealogy.
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 Woodbridge Sentinel - Bulletin Board
Woodbridge AARP Chapter No. 3869 will hold its next meeting March 3 at 1 p.m.
The 55+ Club, Woodbridge, is planning a trip to Las Vegas in May.
Vendors are sought for the Sisterhood of Temple B’nai Shalom Food Fair, a craft fair dedicated to specialty foods and related products and services, set for April 25 at the temple, Fern Road, East Brunswick.
ws.gmnews.com /News/2004/0218/Bulletin_Board   (333 words)

  
 Woodbridge --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The community was originally a Saxon settlement near the site of the Sutton Hoo ship burial, which yielded one of England's greatest archaeological treasures.
Woodbridge developed into a market town, and ships for the Royal Navy were at...
Across the Arthur Kill, a narrow channel, from Staten Island, N.Y., lies Woodbridge Township, N.J. Located 12 miles (19 kilometers) southwest of Elizabeth, N.J., the township covers an area of 23 square miles (60 square kilometers) in Middlesex County in the eastern part of the state.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077406?tocId=9077406   (566 words)

  
 Movie Poop Shoot - R.I.P. GEORGE WOODBRIDGE
Re: R.I.P. Woodbridge was an illustrator for Mad.
If there were a lot of details in a sketch, it was probably Woodbridge.
He was with MAD since 1950, and is well known for "43 Man Squammish", "The Hymn of the Battered Rebublic"et.
www.moviepoopshoot.com /forums/showthread.php?t=2516   (173 words)

  
 Pane-Joyce Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
George Clark (ca 1647-19 Jul 1734) and Deborah Gold (say 1659-2 Jun 1697).
George died at Woodbridge, CT, on 21 Aug 1762.
George was made Ensign of the western company of Milford, Oct 1726, and Lieutenant of the same, Oct 1729.
aleph0.clarku.edu /~djoyce/gen/report/rr14/rr14_096.html   (82 words)

  
 Comic creator: George Woodbridge
George Woodbridge was a versatile artist for MAD magazine.
He attended the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, together with Al Williamson and Frank Frazetta.
Throughout his MAD years, Woodbridge also drew historical illustrations for books and magazines.
lambiek.net /artists/w/woodbridge_george.htm   (57 words)

  
 Bulletin Board for 1st Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard)
I just found out that George C. Woodbridge passed away on January 20, 2004.
George was a former member of "B" Co. and Regimental Hq.
George and I were chosen by the Regiment in 1951 to be the first men to wear the Army's new grey green uniform.
www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageBulletinBoard/1,13492,100294|772746|M,00.html   (84 words)

  
 Miquelon.org Stop France Bashing
Also useful is John C. Fitzpatrick's edited 4 volumes of The Diaries of George Washington, 1748-1799 (Boston and NY, 1925).
Selig's article in The William and Mary Quarterly, No.3, July 1993, describes a recently discovered 1787 manuscript-journal of an enlisted fusilier of the Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment that was in Rochambeau's Expedition.
George Washington, A Biography, Volume Five: Victory With The Help of France.
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 Coville's Clubhouse - June 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
George Perez has been working in the comic industry for about 25 years.
While some hot pencilers come and go, he's is one of the very few that remains a fan favorite through the years.
George answers all sorts of questions and gives us some details about when he is ending his run on Avengers and starting his new work Crimson Plague, coming out through Gorilla Comics.
www.collectortimes.com /2000_06/Clubhouse.html   (1737 words)

  
 ICv2 News - Anyone For Squamish?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
George Woodbridge, a cartoonist and illustrator whose works graced the pages of Mad Magazine back in the humor magazine's heyday, died this week at the age of 73.
Woodbridge illustrated one of the most famous Mad pieces of all time in 1965 when he collaborated with writer Tom Koch on "43-Man Squamish," an illustrated guide to an absurd field game played with ridiculous implements and hilariously convoluted rules.
Born in 1930,Woodbridge was a native New Yorker.
www.icv2.com /articles/news/4158.html   (313 words)

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