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Died. Welton Becket, 66, master architect whose clean, functional structures grace five continents; of congestive heart failure; in Los Angeles. Becket's eclectic approach lacked the individuality of a Mies van der Rohe or a Frank Lloyd Wright. "We are trying to solve the client's problems, and it is out of the solution of those problems that the design evolves," said Becket. And from his drawing board came buildings for ten of the U.S.'s top industrial firms, six of its leading banking houses and five of its largest insurance companies, as well as plans...
...SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9 p.m. to midnight). Becket (1964). Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole and John Gielgud in the film version of Jean Anouilh's 1959 drama about King Henry II of England and his friend Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury...
...pilgrims gather for a fitting finale at the candlelit cathedral shrine of St. Thomas a Becket, and a choral reprise of the prioress' and the nun's earlier simple duet...
...THOMAS BECKET by Richard Winston. 413 pages. Knopf...
...historical figures have captured literary imaginations as thoroughly as Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, who was murdered 800 years ago at the instigation of his King and former friend, Henry II. T. S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral and Jean Anouilh's play and film Becket examined the irresistible character who, upon slipping into clerical garb, warned his King that he would serve his new divine master as faithfully as he had served his old human one. He became a devoted protector of church rights and, inevitably, a resolute enemy of his monarch. Richard Winston...