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English: 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. President Kennedy (center left) visits with Nobel Prize-winning author, Pearl S. Buck; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (center right) visits with poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Robert Frost. Lady Bird Johnson (left) and Agnes Charlier Jarring (wife of Ambassador of Sweden, Gunnar Jarring) sit in front row. Other Nobel Prize winners pictured include: 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; physicist from Stanford University, Dr. Robert Hofstadter; physicist from the University of Illinois, Dr. John Bardeen; and chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. William F. Giauque. Also pictured: Dorothy Léger; President of Atlanta University, Dr. Rufus E. Clement; President of Harvard University, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey; author, Van Wyck Brooks; Genevieve Jemtegaard Calvin; literary critics, Lionel Trilling and Diana Trilling; author, John Dos Passos; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Richard N. Goodwin; Sandra Leverant Goodwin; and composer, Alexei Haieff. White House, Washington, D.C.