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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-04-29-B
AR19, ST09, KN15
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-141-5-62
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; 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 Segré; poet, Alexis Léger (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 Léger; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; and Broadway producer, Arthur Cantor. White House, Washington, D.C. [Scratches on image are original to the negative.]
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-141-24-62
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), 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 Segré; 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, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-141-12-62
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. President Kennedy visits with Nobel Prize-winning chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Harold C. Urey; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy looks on from left. Also pictured: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; Broadway producer, Arthur Cantor; Ambassador of Norway, Paul Koht; and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring). East Room, White House, Washington, D.C. [Scratches and white spots on image are original to the negative.]
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-21212
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (center right) and poet, Robert Frost, arrive 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. Also pictured: author, John Dos Passos; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; Nobel Prize-winning biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin; literary critic, Diana Trilling; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; Sandra Leverant Goodwin; Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring); composer, Alexei Haieff; Broadway producer, Arthur Cantor; and Ambassador of Norway, Paul Koht. White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7188-E
Actor Fredric March stands with Broadway producer, Arthur Cantor (right), and an unidentified woman (center) in the East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., prior to a dinner in honor of Nobel Prize winners from the Western Hemisphere. Later in the evening, Mr. March performed a reading of excerpts from the works of late American Nobel Prize winners.