European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes Friday. September 4, 19b7 Jefferson is 1784 wine survives flight to states a to talc of i78j wine that belonged to ilium is offer san was flown from in Indus to new Turk wednesday wrapped in a stick for Protection and accompanied by n recommendation thai the darn still tastes Good. When 1 re corked in earlier this year i just took a tiny Hii on to lip of my Tongue ii was fruity dry and quilt drinkable said Michael Bru Jhent of Chris ties auction House of London. Road Honl carried the half bottle of chateau m in a ii \ As hand baggage on the supersonic concorde flight of British airways to deliver in to its new of nor wine Maga inc publisher Marvin Slink to. Shinken paid he equivalent of j2k.800 it auction Currier this year to buy the wine. The bottle was bought in 17h7 when Jefferson was ambassador to France n 1985 in was discovered along with other old wines in a Paris cellar and the bottle Bor Jefferson s initials to document its Origi Nal owner. I Don t think it will Ever be drunk in its entirety hut i will be surprised if the new owner did not Lake just a taste of in Broadbent said. To protect the wine during the flight Road Binl cooled it slightly and he put the bottle in a sock an carried in in a plastic picnic hamper. Carson hit a sore spot a new York dentist wants to extract s3 million from Johnny Crynn because of a disgusting Compa Rison the comedian made Between dentists and the Gestapo. In papers filed in stale supreme court or. Michael Menam skin of i Lullington said Carson hit a nerve when he told the joke april 18. 1986, on his television show. The joke went As follows according to a recent bids Ines report dentists in the United states arc going out of business due to improvements in denial techniques and in the use of fluoride. Imagine dentists going Oul of business. I Haven t been so hippy about a group disbanding since the  the dentist wrote to Carson to say tic comedian was trying to amuse his audience with the anachronistic and damaging myth of a dental appointment As a sadomasochistic vaudeville  to compare this same group of doctors to a gang of sadistic and bigoted thugs is ludicrous Mendel son wrote demanding a Smirk free  Carton read the letter on the air and said Mendel son should lighten  he added that dentistry has an honorable tradition dating Back to the Spanish inquisition and that dentists take off Only three Days a year Christmas thanksgiving and the Marquis de Side s birthday. Chr lilies Michael Braadbent and 17b4 wins. Stephen Huff lawyer for Abc and Carson said he would move to have mind Olson s sail dismissed. Van Gogh set for auction irises a Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece that was painted in a French mental Asylum will be auctioned this fall the Pai Ming s owner announced wednesday. The picture which has been owned by the Payson family for 40 years is the most important work of Art to be sold in  according to John l. Marlin chairman of rotheby s North America. Van Gogh painted los irises in May 889 at the Asylum do Saint Paul do Massole in Saint Remy an institution he had entered for treatment. He committed suicide the following year. In March Van Gogh s sunflowers became the most expensive auctioned picture when a japanese company paid $39.9 million for in. In june his Bridge at Trinque Laille was sold to a european collector for $20.2 million the second highest Price Ever paid for a painting at a Public auction. We expect this painting will bring somewhere Between those two  said David Nash of so theby s. There is a possibility it could do More than the sunflowers hut i m not anticipating  the Oil on Canvas which contrasts the vivid purple Blue Flowers with Cool preen leaves will be auctioned nov. 11 Ai rotheby s it was displayed atthe metropolitan museum s exhibition Van Gogh in Saint Kymy and a Vars this year. The painting was acquired in 1947 by Joan Whit Ney Payson a philanthropist Art collector and owner of the new York mils baseball team. After her death in 197s, her son John Whitney Payson built a Small Art gallery Al Westbrook College in Portland Maine in her memory and Lent irises and other works from her collect Ion to in. Koch up off diet new York mayor Edward i. Koch said wednesday that he has gone off the did his doctors put him on and that he has Only himself to blame. I brought the Poison  he said referring to a chocolate cake. The mayor who was instructed to lose weight after he suffered a minor stroke aug. 6, said he took the cake along on a weekend visit to friends but did not intend to cat in. He said he normally has great will  said that when the cake was served he held off eating the cake itself but could t resist the Choc Olate frosting. The mayor 62, weighed 216 i when he got out of the Hospital aug. 9, dropped to about 211, then went up a bit before inc cake episode. Me declined to reveal How much he weighed wednesday on the advice of  Koch said he intends to resume his diet because tic wants to write a diet Book and to do so i have to have a successful  Nebraska mascots retired spurned As ugly University of Nebraska football team mascots Harry and Herble Muster won t be lumbering along the sidelines saturday when the Cor huskers play Utah state. Harry whose huge fibreglass Cowboy head has bobbed benignly at Nebraska games since 1974, has been retired. Heroic Harry s fuzzy and Bug eyed sidekick in bib overalls is being redesigned to More closely resemble his Blond Lowboy image printed on University sanctioned souvenirs like Beer mugs and toilet seats. Athletic department business manager Giry fou Raker said the mascots Drew a lot of complaints Harry in particular. He was ugly among other things Fouraker said. The new. Improved Herbie is expected to make hit debut sept. 12 at the Nebraska Urcla game. It s a rumble in this upcoming Issue of Road & track Magazine Ford s Boss 302 and Pontiac s first trans am rumble with today s Mustang la and firebird formula guess who had the Best fuel Economy and acceleration also Road tests on the Alfa Romeo Milano 3.0 and the Mercedes Benz 420 Sel plus a special on the new Breed of Ferrari Testagrossa spiders Road & track Magazine is available for $2.50 at most stars and stripes bookstores