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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...
...Britain, Honduras, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, The Netherlands and West Germany. Last January, an International Peace Corps Secretariat, geared to building more Peace Corps from more countries, was set up in Washington. Just last week President Kennedy (who was accompanied on his European trip by his sister, Sargent Shriver's wife Eunice, standing in for the expectant Mrs. Kennedy as the feminine presence) spoke at the inauguration of West Germany's aborning Peace Corps. He predicted: "Germans will find their reward not here, pursuing their private pursuits, but in some far-off country...