[LibFreeOrDie]

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

[JustAnotherOkie]

I wonder if Teddy stands behind his fathers decision?

[Oztrich Boy]

1. Famous family
2, slightly retarded
3. bubbly and personable.
4. "Socially adventurous"

Couldn't they have just given her a TV show?

[ZULU]

As far as I'm concerned, they could take the entire treasonous, drunken, philandering, bootlegging clan of them and lock them all up.

[FerdieMurphy]

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.