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100 Freshmen Gypped By Wily Prizewinner

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Somewhere there's a freshman who could sell an awful lot of beer mugs.

The Lampoon had planned to defraud the Class of '69 with a 35-cent registration issue consisting of a masthead, 17 blank pages, and a final page that begins, "You have just been gypped by the Harvard Lampoon. . . ."

Well, the boys in Freedom Square came to their senses in the nick of time, but they could not resist handing out three 100-copy "mystery packages" of the suppressed issue.

And yesterday they learned that one prisewinner had disposed all his copies at list price.

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