Trygve Halvdan Lie

After a half century of struggling with the spelling of the names of Secretaries General like the first one, Trygve Halvdan Lie of Norway, and his successors, the sainted Dag Hammerskjold of Sweden, U Thant of Burma, Kurt Waldheim of Austria, Perez de Cuellar and Boutrous-Ghali -- Kofi Annan was easy, once you got past his first name -- we journalists and copy editors will have one that most of us can spell without googling his name up when the Security Council casts its vote on Oct. 9.

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