In Atlanta last week, blonde, husky-throated Mrs. Betty Hill Karr, who learned how to wear clothes as a torch singer in Chicago's best nightclubs, got all dressed up for a ceremony that made her No. 1 woman of the C.I.O.'s United Steel Workers. She laid aside her welder's apron and toolmaker's slacks, flounced into her party clothes, pinned an orchid to her shoulder and was off to her local's big celebration.
Officers of the Murray Co., where she has worked since January, sent twelve dozen roses and six dozen carnations. C.I.O. President Philip Murray sent the mahogany gavel he used...
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