The Closest Look at Col. Tom Parker

A big file on Colonel Tom Parker, the man who managed Elvis Presley for twenty-two years and never once let anybody look at him

Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk, of nowhere in particular.

In the spring of 1960, in a hairdresser’s in Eindhoven, a Dutch woman named Nel Dankers-van Kuijk picked up a Belgian magazine to pass the time.

There was a story in it about Elvis Presley coming home from the Army. There was a photograph of him in the door of a train, waving. And just behind him, grin…