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White House Photographs
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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. Standing in foreground (L-R): Mr. March; writer, Mary Welsh Hemingway (widow of Nobel Prize-winning author, Ernest Hemingway); Mrs. Kennedy; Katherine Tupper Marshall (widow of Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall), mostly hidden; and President Kennedy. Seated in front row of audience at right are (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson; and Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.