Explains his look of disapproval then. This content is protected Though I heard that Joe took up both smoking and drinking during his long mental decline, after his troubles with the IRS . BTW I didn't know he was doing business with Castro's Cuba http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,874125,00.html 'Now Louis — whose debts include $1-250,000 in back income taxes—has carried his admiration further and become a paid pressagent for Cuba. With Cuba's $60 million-a-year tourist business off 85% and Havana's luxury hotels deserted, Castro signed a $287,000-a-year contract with a Manhattan all-Negro public relations firm (Joe Louis, vice president) to promote Cuba as a vacation spot for U.S. Negroes. The firm gets a fee of $25,000 a year, plus a 15% commission on advertising, so far has plans to spend $262,000 on contests and convention speakers plus space in U.S. publications bought mostly by Negroes. "We have nothing to do with Castro or politics; it's just another publicity account," said Joe, who had to register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent. Worriedly, he added that payment on the new account is already "two months behind."'