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...townsfolk still recall the class of 1960 as something special. It set a regional record for Merit Scholarships (13), and its football team went undefeated in the Central Kansas League. Breon Mitchell went on to Kansas University and a Rhodes scholarship. "Folks here," remembers Rita Joyce, "could never understand why Breon studied English and philosophy. They figured he should be using his brainpower for engineering or physics." Breon, like much of the class of '60, moved away from Salina and now teaches at the University of Indiana. Sandy Van Cleef studied ballet, married a mortician and settled in Magnolia...
...SORROWS OF TRAVEL, by John Breon (250 pp.; Putnam; $3.50), is a novel about that old literary subject, restored to life by the G.I. Bill of Rights: young Americans in postwar Paris. First Novelist Breon writes knowingly enough about boys and girls who came to create and stayed to drink, but he cannot make their problems seem important, and perhaps they should have stayed home in the first place...