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May 11, 1947

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THREE YALE EIGHTS TRIUMPH AT DERBY; Sweep Events Against Penn and Columbia -- Harvard 150s Annex Goldthwaite Cup THREE YALE EIGHTS TRIUMPH AT DERBY

By William D. Richardsonspecial To the New York Times

DERBY, Conn., May 10 -- After Yale's oarsmen took the measure of Pennsylvania and Columbia in the freshman and junior varsity races as the Derby Day regatta was renewed today on the Housatonic River, Coach Allen Walz's Eli varsity crew made it a clean sweep against these rivals by driving to a clean-cut triumph in the main event.

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THE NATION

By Unknown Author

GOP and Labor Labor unions in America have as members 15,000,000 working men and women. Last week Congress neared final action on a bill that would fundamentally change the national labor laws under which unions achieved this strength.

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Notable Births

Butch Trucks

1947Butch Trucks, American drummer (died 2017)[โ€ ]

Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks was an American drummer. He was best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Trucks was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida.