Word: sedalia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BETTY C. CHARLES Sedalia...
...Maple Leaf Rag Song (1903) Ragtime began hypnotizing the nation about the time the Gay Nineties became gay, and it disappeared years before the Stanley Steamer and the suffragette. It might still be gone if it were not for the efforts of a Sedalia, Mo., piano peddler named John Stillwell Stark and an entertainer and pianist named Max Morath. Stark had the good sense to start publishing classic Negro rags like Maple Leaf Rag and Sunflower Slow Drag in 1899 when he was in late middle age; last year Morath, 36, began playing the rags on television-and has become...
...played in the honky-tonks and brothels of Sedalia at the turn of the century, ragtime would have won neither sponsors nor the approval of Newton Minow. A derivative of the Negro spiritual, it opposed a syncopated right hand to a marching bass, and it talked, as one wag observed, of the six days of the week the spirituals ignored...
Like most royal successions, the Star's was likely to change little more than the names on the palace stationery. "Hell, I was hand-raised by Roy," said Fowler, a Sedalia, Mo., farm boy who sold poultry before coming to the Star as a reporter in 1930. "I don't think I could separate my own ideas from...