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. 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), mostly hidden; Lady Bird Johnson (mostly hidden); Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; President Kennedy; First Lady Jacquelin


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. 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), mostly hidden; Lady Bird Johnson (mostly hidden); 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; Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Linus Pauling; Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; and chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey. Also pictured: Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; and Broadway producer, Arthur Cantor. White House, Washington,


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