Dinner in honor of Nobel Prize Winners, 8:00PM. 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; an unidentified man (left) stands at lectern. 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
Dinner in honor of Nobel Prize Winners, 8:00PM. 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; an unidentified man (left) stands at lectern. 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; poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost; Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring); unidentified; writer, Mary Welsh Hemingway (widow of Nobel Prize-winning author, Ernest Hemingway); Grete Koht; and Ambassador of Norway, Paul Koht. Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Emilio Segr\u00e9; poet, Alexis L\u00e9ger (Saint-John Perse); Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Linus Pauling; former director of the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, Dr. Selman A. Waksman; Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey; and Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Lester B. Pearson. Also pictured: Dorothy L\u00e9ger; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; and Broadway producer, Arthur Cantor. White House, Washington, [Scratches on image are original to the negative.]
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