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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor, Frederic March, of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Western Hemisphere. Seated in front row (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); Lady Bird Johnson; Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; President Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring); unidentified; writer, Mary Welsh Hemingway (widow of Nobel Prize-winning author, Ernest Hemingway); and Grete Koht (wife of Ambassador of Norway, Paul Koht). Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); former director of the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, Dr. Selman A. Waksman; Dr. Walter H. Brattain, of the Bell Laboratories at the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T); Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud; and biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin. Also pictured: President of Atlanta University, Dr. Rufus E. Clement; Steve Smith (brother-in-law of President Kennedy); Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; and composer, Alexei Haieff. White House, Washington, D.C.