TV & VIDEO - May 12, 1988

Longtime stage, screen and TV soaps star Macdonald Carey, 75, is receiving an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts today--for poetry. The bestowal, by the University of South Carolina’s Aiken campus, which similarly honored actor Jimmy Stewart last week as part of that state’s “Year of the Arts” celebration, coincides with the release of Carey’s third published book of verse. Carey, longtime regular Dr. Tom Horton on “Days of Our Lives,” made his Broadway debut in 1941 opposite Gertrude Lawrence in the hit musical “Lady in the Dark” and has been writing poetry all his life. His recent work has garnered kudos even from the crusty Charles Bukowski.