Milestones: Jan. 6, 1967

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Died. Nicholas Andrea Dandolos, 85, king of U.S. gamblers, a suave native of Crete known as "Nick the Greek," who immigrated to the U.S. to follow his luck in the early 1900s, bragged that over the years he made and lost 73 separate fortunes totaling something like $500 million, most spectacularly, at least as he told it, one time in the high-stakes 1920s, when he blew $1,600,000 in a nonstop, 12-day crap game; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles.

Died. Josephine Goldwater, 91, mother of Barry, who in 1900 left Nebraska to pioneer in the Arizona wastelands, worked as a nurse in a log-cabin dispensary near Phoenix before marrying wealthy Clothing Merchant Baron Goldwater, and thereafter continued helping numerous medical charities; of heart disease; in Phoenix.