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King of the Cross: Sydney crime boss Abe Saffronâs secret friends and properties
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This story was first published on May 31, 2007.
â³Iâm so devastated by what happened in the will,â says an anguished Alan Saffron. âWhat you leave in your legacy is an indication of your feelings and Iâve been left out in a terrible way.â
Abe Saffron watches a dancer at his Roosevelt Nightclub in Sydney in January 1951.
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Abe Saffron, Australiaâs most famous crime figure, may have died last September, just three weeks shy of his 87th birthday, but he is still calling the shots. Not only did he leave his only son, Alan, now 58 and living in Los Angeles, a smaller amount than his daughter and mistress but there was a codicil to the will stipulating that should his son challenge it, he was to be cut out all toge
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Maths teachers shared pre-exam jitters with their students ahead of this year s HSC. Three new syllabuses were tested for the first time and, with limited sample materials, departments felt they were running blind. People were so nervous about how things would go, said Baulkham Hills High School principal Jeannie Bathgate.
Her maths staff scrutinised every corner of each course syllabus, which included new statistics and financial maths topics for advanced and extension 1 maths, and harder mechanics and proof topics in extension 2 . They were super careful to cover absolutely everything, Ms Bathgate said.
Baulkham Hills High School s Caleb Hsiung achieved a 99.95 ATAR with his high maths marks. The school shot up to place equal second in HSC maths rankings this year.
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Bernadette Rogers was Walter Freemanâs 1764th patient. She was very white and very skinny. She was so skinny that her cheeks had sprouted a fine layer of blonde fuzz, like a jacket. She was also so skinny that Walter Freeman could fit his hand round her ankle with extra space. He experimented after some electroshocks.
âLook,â he said to the junior neurologist and the nurse, and held up her ankle. âLook how skinny she is.â -
Uncovered in twelve cardboard boxes sealed with red-and-white FRAGILE tape were 3, 874 black-and-white photographs and 150 reels of 16 mm film. The neurologist who found them, a Dr. Kalina Kalcheva (newly arrived from the Sofia Academy of Medicine) told the local paper; âI could not sleep. Seeing the eyes of those people, I could not sleep for days.â