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During his Yale years, Shriver distinguished himself by becoming editor of the Yale Daily News and defining himself as "Christian, Aristotelian, optimist and American." He lived in Germany during a couple of summers while he was a Yalie, and came home with a deep fear of war: "I remember in Germany and France going to church on Sunday and noticing that there were no men in church between the ages of 30 and 50. They were all dead-killed in other wars." Shaken, he returned to his senior year in law school, helped start Yale's America First chapter...
Athletics & Art. Shriver fought the war on a submarine (he still wears the submarine service dolphin in his coat lapel). His first postwar job was writing for Newsweek. Then, at a cocktail party in 1946, he met tawny-haired Eunice Kennedy, and they had a couple of dates. Nothing serious-but Shriver did meet Old Joe Kennedy. When Joe learned of Shriver's journalistic interest, he asked him to look at some diaries written in Spain during the Civil War by the late Joseph Kennedy Jr. to see if they were publishable. Shriver read them, said frankly that they...
Eventually, Shriver was made assistant general manager-a kind of all-round vice president involved in sales, promotion, advertising. He married the boss's daughter in 1953 after six years of off-again-on-again courtship. Says Shriver: "She's a hard person to sell-tough as her father." They settled down in a 14-room duplex in Chicago, produced three bright-eyed kids (Robert Sargent III, 9; Maria, 7; and Timothy, 3). Shriver got deeply involved in civic affairs-as a good Kennedy in-law would-including five years on the Chicago board of education. He resigned...
...Shrivers now rent a 14-room farm home on 30 acres in Rockville, Md. They entertain visiting firemen and corpsmen with vigorous hours of softball, touch football and swimming. Shriver is a good tennis player, easily beats Bobby, who is the Kennedy clan's best. He is also an art connoisseur, has a diversified personal collection including Salvador Dali, Kenzo Okada...
There is still much to do. For one thing, there is that home-town image of the Peace Corps marching off to save the world. It bothers the volunteers. Said Shriver in his congressional message: "As the Peace Corps enters its third year, volunteers and staff alike have the feeling that the Peace Corps stories most often repeated are too glamorous, too glowing, too pat. Few of these stories talk of the day-to-day problems, the frustrations, the harsh disappointments, and the serious occupational hazards-as one volunteer put it-of 'dysentery and boredom.' In a sense...