I remember poring over Paul Simon's lyrics on the back of the Bridge over Troubled Water LP sleeve.
"We came in on the back of this bridge," says Robert Christensen, director of the school's executive board.
My parents sent me up to Maine with a pack of pink stationery, a sheet of 11-cent stamps and a few family addresses scribbled on the back of a bridge tally sheet.
The back of the bridge, facing the tailpiece, should be perfectly perpendicular to the violin.
Was it gratifying to bring someone of Stakgold's caliber back to bridge?
It may date back to bridge rhymes and games of the late Middle Ages, but the earliest records of the rhyme in English are from the seventeenth century.
Republicans opposing Kennedy's re-election made sure that their attack ads came with a backing track of "Bridge Over Troubled Water", while National Lampoon magazine ran a memorable spoof advert depicting a VW Beetle floating on water with the caption "If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he'd be President today".
Off the back of space bridges' initial success, we had planned to influence peace processes elsewhere with similar broadcast programmes.
While Attwell had seemingly blind assistant Nigel Bannister to thank, in September 1970 Capey was fooled by the stanchions on the back of the Stamford Bridge posts.
Similarly, Warners will come back with "Bridges of Madison County" at the end of the year, predicated on awards consideration for stars Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood, says studio distribution chief Barry Reardon.
People played a lot of bridge back then, but "pass on," as a metaphor for skipping or refusing something, was not yet in use.
