Wait for the Book: The commander of...

Wait for the Book: The commander of the battleship Iowa is retiring from the Navy and someday may write about the turret explosion last April that killed 47 sailors. “Down the road, I might have a lot to say. But I’ve decided to save all that,” Capt. Fred P. Moosally said Wednesday in Norfolk, Va. A Navy report said the explosion probably was caused by sabotage by a disgruntled gunner’s mate who died in the explosion. That conclusion has been challenged by some of the victims’ families and members of Congress.

Run Aground: Polish-born heiress Barbara Piasecka Johnson, one of America’s richest women, dismissed suggestions through a spokesman in New York Thursday that her plan to save a Polish shipyard was falling through. News reports from Poland said Johnson’s proposal to pump $100 million into the ailing Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, where Lech Walesa founded the Solidarity movement, was failing because she had demanded that workers be paid lower wages and stage no strikes for five years. “We don’t agree that the deal’s unraveling,” said John Peach, a Johnson aide.

A Royal Wish: Princess Anne says she wishes her children had better role models. “I look around and wonder what sort of examples they have to look up to now,” the daughter of Queen Elizabeth II said in London this week. “You find if you go to any number of countries where the small rural communities have very strict codes of behavior, you don’t find much thieving and pilfering, and murder is almost unheard of,” the princess said.

For Sale, One Mansion: A 68-year-old mansion in Dallas’ fashionable Highland Park area has been listed for sale by Caroline and Nelson Bunker Hunt, who emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings earlier this month. The asking price on the six-bedroom, six-bath mansion is $2.8 million. The house has marble fireplaces and a garden room with an Italian tile floor. Nelson Hunt had made millions in silver speculation.