So
Clare Boothe (not yet Luce) visits Bernard Baruch's
South Carolina mansion, near which "
deer,
fox,
feral pigs, egrets,
bald eagles,
wild turkeys, and bull alligators populated the surrounding woods and
swamps." And when I read that, I was like,
what, no owls? Come on! I know there were some owls in there! But owls did not make the cut. Just a few pages later, though, Baruch is "prominent in
owlish spectacles."