Like Father . . .: Friends of...

Like Father . . .: Friends of deposed New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner say he got his bluster and impetuousity from his overbearing father, Henry. Frank Treadway, a childhood friend, said: “All (George) really wanted was a peaceful, loving relationship with his father,” who was impossible to please, Treadway says in Men’s Life magazine. Steinbrenner, famous for firing managers, was himself fired from the family shipping business in the 1960s by his father when the son took an unauthorized cruise on Lake Erie.

Arthur Who?: An exhibition of landscape paintings mark the artistic debut of Arthur George Carrick, a.k.a. Prince Charles, who derived his pseudonym from two of his Christian names and one of his earldoms. The works go on display today near London. “I am not . . . under the delusion the sketches represent great art,” said Charles, who will miss the opening while recovering from surgery on his right arm, broken in a polo accident.

Review the Review: Writers George Plimpton, Joyce Carol Oates and Susan Sontag and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet William Meredith have signed a petition to save the Yale Review. Citing financial problems, the university plans to drop the literary journal, in which Robert Frost and Robert Penn Warren, among others, first published.

Open Curtain: A sculpture by a granddaughter of Winston Churchill will be placed at Westminster College, in Fulton, Mo., site of his now-famous “Iron Curtain” speech. “Breakthrough” by Edwina Sandys is made of eight sections of the Berlin Wall, in which she created open space by cutting two human figures. The sculpture will be installed Nov. 9.