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...documents. Carl S. McGee, who is assistant secretary for policy and planning in the Democratic administration, was a 1998 graduate of Harvard Law School and a former Rhodes Scholar. According to a probable cause document from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, McGee was arrested at the Gasparilla Inn & Club in Boca Grande, Fla. in late December after police received a complaint from a man claiming that McGee had sexually abused his teenage son in the steam room of the $600-a-night Gulf Coast resort. McGee entered the steam room, masturbated in front of the victim...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Deval Patrick Aide Arrested for Assault | 2/11/2008 | See Source »

Mottled Death. The amber streaks disappeared. Then, in the middle of July, the Red Tide reappeared off Gasparilla Island. Slowly, it worked northward, dissipating mysteriously, as mysteriously reforming. Last week off St. Petersburg, the Red Tide stretched in mottled patches over an area 60 miles long and 25 miles wide. As it spread, fish flopped crazily on the edges and died. Flies buzzed over their rotting carcasses on the beaches. Shore residents suffered headaches, burning throats and coughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: The Red Tide | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...Tampa, for the first time in six years. Pirate King Gasparilla invaded the city in his three-masted ship Jose Caspar to set off a three-day festival. City officials happily estimated that 250,000 people had been attracted by the revival of the 43-year-old pageant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...Cove, Long Island, he came into the bank as usual at about 10:30 a.m. That evening he was on a Florida special, southbound for a rest. Early on the morning of the 25th he suffered a slight heart attack, walked from the train to a cottage of the Gasparilla Inn at Bocagrande, a tiny hamlet on a Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: End and Beginning | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...made putting too easy. The Pinehurst golfers then tried a 6-in. cup, planned a tournament to see if the members liked it. Eight-inch cups were installed at the Cavalier Country Club, Virginia Beach; Riviera Golf Course, Miami; Palmaceia Course, near Tampa, Fla. Here the second annual Gasparilla 72-hole medal play for a guaranteed net $1,300 purse will be held next week in which experts who like the idea of the new cup will have a chance to try it. One entrant will be Wild Bill Mehlhorn, famed professional who last year gave up golf to teach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Eight-Inch Cups | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

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