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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-04-29-B
AR19, ST09, KN15
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-05-11-F
AR20, ST10, KN16
Photograph
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.]
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-141-4-62
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 and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy visit with Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck. Seated in front row (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (mostly hidden); Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); Lady Bird Johnson; Ms. Buck; the President and First Lady; and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring). Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: poet, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. Edward M. Purcell; former director of the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, Dr. Selman A. Waksman; physicist from the Institute for Advanced Study, Dr. Chen Ning Yang; and biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin. Also pictured: Steve Smith (brother-in-law of President Kennedy); Dorothy Léger; author, Van Wyck Brooks; literary critic, Diana Trilling; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; and Sandra Leverant Goodwin. White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-141-14-62
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 and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy visit with Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck. Seated in front row (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (mostly hidden); Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall); Lady Bird Johnson; Ms. Buck; the President and First Lady; 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); 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; and biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Melvin Calvin. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; Steve Smith (brother-in-law of President Kennedy); President of Harvard University, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey; author, Van Wyck Brooks; literary critic, Diana Trilling; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; and Sandra Leverant Goodwin. White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-192-6-62
President John F. Kennedy visits with pianist Eugene Istomin (center) and cellist Leonard Rose (right) following their performance at a dinner in honor of Minister of State for Cultural Affairs of France, André Malraux. Also pictured: Secretary of the Interior, Stewart L. Udall; Patricia Herman and White House correspondent for Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), George Herman; Dorothy Léger, wife of poet Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse). East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-192-2-62
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy host a dinner in honor of Minister of State for Cultural Affairs of France, André Malraux. President Kennedy, violinist Isaac Stern, Mrs. Kennedy, and pianist Madeleine Malraux (wife of the minister) stand before guests in the East Room. Also pictured: Frances Scott “Scottie” Fitzgerald Lanahan; Erma Lee Udall and Secretary of the Interior, Stewart L. Udall; socialite and artist, Margaret Eustis Finley; White House correspondent for Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), George Herman; Dorothy Léger and poet Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); Bettine “Betsy” Tyler and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, William R. Tyler; philanthropist and art collector, Jayne Wrightsman; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, William A. M. Burden, Jr.; Special Consultant to President Kennedy on the Arts, August Heckscher; French Ambassador to the United States, Hervé Alphand. White House, Washington, D.C.