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    FULL CONTROL TO COLONEL TOM

    Mar 09, 2021 4 minutes
    BY PETER CARLSON

    Colonel Tom Parker was a big man with a big appetite. He loved country hams, imported cheeses, and ribeye steaks topped with fried eggs. He loved these and other delicacies even more when he was getting somebody else to pay for them, and he usually did. He spent most of his time in Las Vegas, where the casinos stand high rollers to unlimited free food. Parker fit that bill, frequently betting $10,000 on the spin of a roulette wheel.

    “I do like I want to,” he declared. “I spend like I want to.”

    He lost millions at the roulette and craps tables but collected millions more as Elvis Presley’s personal

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