Armed with a major in handicapping racehorses
and a minor in advanced 8-ball-thinly disguised as a B.A. in English from Tulane University-native son Angus Lind set out to become a hustler.
Luckily, he also had an interest in journalism.
In 42 years in newspapers, 39 at The States-Item and The Times-Picayune, he covered the biggest stories of the 1970s-the Hale Boggs plane crash in Alaska, the Downtown Howard Johnson sniper incident, the Rault Center fire, the Upstairs Lounge fire, and the construction of the Superdome.
For the past 32 years as a columnist for the Living Section, he tapped out occasionally irreverent, sometimes amusing stories chronicling the eccen- tricities and human comedy that is New Orleans.
He concentrated not on celebrities, but on the char- acters, rogues and regular people he is so attracted to, their dialogues and dialects-and discovered that almost everybody has a story to tell.
As his readers know, Angus is the ultimate story- teller.
