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President John F. Kennedy and others gather in the East Room to attend a reading by actor Fredric 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; poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost; and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring). Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Emilio Segré; poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; Director of the Department of Pediatrics and Contagious Diseases at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, Dr. Frederick C. Robbins; and chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; President of Atlanta University, Dr. Rufus E. Clement; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; literary critic, Lionel Trilling; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; Sandra Leverant Goodwin; and composer, Alexei Haieff. White House, Washington, D.C.