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Executors of Tennessee Williams’ $1.5-million estate are asking a Florida judge to give the late playwright’s remaining cash to his 78-year-old sister Rose, who has been institutionalized at the Stony Lodge Sanitarium in Ossining, N.Y., since undergoing one of the nation’s first lobotomies more than 50 years ago. Williams supported Rose well during his lifetime and in his will asked that she be allowed to maintain her “usual customary pleasures,” which include shopping sprees in New York, limousines, cruises and Broadway shows. Lawyers for Southeast Bank in Miami, the executor of the estate, expect a decision in January.

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