PARKER, who gave up smoking his trademark big Cuban cigars in 1990, had a meteoric rise from being a hobo in the late 1920s to a top show business manager. Tom Parker was born on June 26, 1909 in Breda, The Netherlands to Adam and Maria VanKuijk who named their fifth child Andreas Cornelius VanKuijk. As a young man Parker immigrated to the United States where he worked on carnivals and served four years in the United States Army. After his discharge from the army he went back to carnival life.
Her Majesty the Queen has been one of the longest reigning monarchs in the entire world outliving every other Royal family in the world. She has lived almost a full century of cultural government and economic change throughout the world and her Empire. In her life she has had her fair share of ups and downs along with undaunting service for her country. Through Her Majesty the Queen the British Monarch has survived and prospered. Living for the service of her empire is what makes her one of the best
refer to Sidney Finkelstein, JAZZ: A PEOPLES MUSIC (New York: Citadel Press, 1948). 5. Schmitz, ALBUM COVERS, p. 41 (Appendix). 6. Schmitz, "Facing the Music," p. 90. 7. Walter Herdeg, ed. RECORD COVERS (Zurich: Graphis Press, 1974). 8. Tom Piazza, SETTING THE TEMPO: FIFTY YEARS OF GREAT JAZZ LINER NOTES (New York: Doubleday, 1996). 9. Piazza, p. 1. 10. Piazza, p. 2. * * * Bibliography: INTL. REVIEW OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ART Vol. 14, No. 3, 1997, pp. 38-47 Copyright