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John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, may donate his $10,000 prize from the Harvard Lampoon to the Fogg Art Museum for the purchase of erotic Japanese prints, Lampoon sources said yesterday...
Carter B. Burwell '77, Sanctum of the Lampoon, said last night that "Galbraith wants the museum to buy racy, Japanese prints of sexual nature," adding that many prints are "sex manuals and guides to brothels...
...Galbraith received a prize of $10,000, a 1976 Cadillac Eldorado, and a trip to Las Vegas. He was cited as "being to the social sciences what Big Bird is to Sesame Street...
...Galbraith said he would take the $10,000 and "turn it to the needs of a suitably amusing professor...
...centennial celebration ended with a fireworks display Saturday evening, but John Kenneth Galbraith remained unimpressed. Harvard's "Funniest Professor of the Century" said his selection is "not like being named by the Crimson, but still a very great honor...