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Caption: Bettelou PetersonMiss Peterson HonoredFree Press Staffer Among ‘Top Women’Bettelou Peterson, a member of the Detroit Free Press radio and TV department, has been named one of Detroit’s “Top Professional Women” by the Detroit Chapter on American Women in Radio and Television. She is one of five selected by the AWRT board for “excellence of performance in work related to the radio and television industry.”Bettelou has been with the Free Press since 1944 and has been handling radio and TV news since 1948. In private life, she is Mrs. Laurence Middlemas, Jr., wife of a Detroit News sports writer.