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Prudential Growth Opportunity Fund, Inc.
Supplement dated January 2, 1996 to
Prospectus dated November 29, 1995
HOW THE FUND IS MANAGED
MANAGER
Effective January 1996, Jay Kaplan, a Vice President of The Prudential
Investment Corporation (PIC), became a co-manager of the Fund. Mr. Kaplan shares
responsibility for the day-to-day management of the Fund's portfolio with Roger
E. Ford, the Fund's current portfolio manager. Mr. Kaplan also has
responsibility for the day-to-day management of a number of other portfolios
advised by PIC. Mr. Kaplan has been employed by PIC as a portfolio manager since
January 1995. Prior thereto he was an analyst with PIC (1991-1994) and with the
Corporate Finance Group of The Prudential Insurance Company of America between
1988 and 1991.
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