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...Guri Lie, blue-eyed, 22-year-old blonde daughter of the U.N.'s Secretary General Trygve Lie, was chosen queen of the 24th annual Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, Va. The queen's first official duty: to bake a passable apple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Philosophic Mind | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...pleased that many of the present crop planned professional careers-in medicine, law, music, art. By current-events classes, Miss Tanner tried to make the 367 girls conscious of the world outside, not long ago held special prayers for U.N.'s Trygve Lie (father of Old Roedeanean Guri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Frightfully Gamesy | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Last November pretty, blonde Guri Lie showed her father a report in a Norwegian newspaper that he might become secretary of UNO. Big, bluff Trygve Lie (pronounced TRIG-va Lee) boomed: "What is this? Why do they suggest me?" Trygve Lie knew that they would not pick him for his suavity (nil), for his international experience (limited), or for his brain (good, but not dazzling). Last week UNO, a more rugged organization than anyone expected, picked rugged Trygve Lie for character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: A Man with Guts | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

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