More about Rosemary, the lobotomy procedure done back then, and the doctor who popularized it:
http://lang.sbsun.com/projects/lostamongus/displayarticle.asp?part=3&article=art04_lobotomy&page=1
http://www.rotten.com/library/medicine/lobotomy/
http://www.23nlpeople.com/lobotomy.htm
I wonder if Teddy stands behind his fathers decision?
Couldn't they have just given her a TV show?
As far as I'm concerned, they could take the entire treasonous, drunken, philandering, bootlegging clan of them and lock them all up.
I've always thought that the frontal lobotomy was to erase her memory of any impure thoughts about what the men in the house might have done.