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...would begin two new alliances: one with Frank Lyons, the conservative Anglican Bishop of Bolivia, enabling Beach to end-run the Episcopal American hierarchy in favor of its parent Anglicanism; and the other as pastor of a brand-new church--largely financed, it was later announced, by businessman Clyde Strickland, who would donate $100,000 and 10 acres worth $770,000. This new life, Beach told his stunned listeners, would commence in less than a month. "Some of you will feel called to join me" and some not, he said. "Regardless, please know that you have my utmost respect...
...Alban's former praise and worship leader. "Foley took a stand, and I went with him. I couldn't raise my children in the Episcopal Church." Eight Bible-study classes and a baby-sitting service suggest that others feel similarly. If there is any looming shadow, it is that Strickland, Holy Cross's financial angel, founded two other churches and abandoned them after clashes with their pastors. Cautions a previous beneficiary: "He'll put $1 million into Holy Cross. But what happens when Foley makes him unhappy...
...leaks removed any protection for the accuser, a one-time student at the University of Northern Colorado who once tried out for American Idol. Her ex-boyfriend, Johnray Strickland, portrays a young woman under siege: "It all affected her, the press and the tabloids and the friends who were selling her out. Wherever we went, people would yell...
...conviction, or even a verdict, and Bryant's accuser may be saddled with a kind of fame she never bargained for. "It has ruined the life that she's known," says Strickland of his ex-girlfriend. "Her future is pretty well set for her. She's not allowed to put it behind...
DIED. SHIRLEY STRICKLAND DE LA HUNTY, 78, the first woman to win consecutive Olympic titles, in 1948, '52 and '56, including three gold medals in sprinting and hurdling for Australia; in Perth. Also a mother and nuclear physicist, she chased rabbits while growing up on her family farm but took up running seriously only a couple of years before her first Olympics...