Crusader and fraud

THEY called him “Mr Clean”. It was not a joke. First, he was a champion swimmer, and would emerge from the pool with his long lanky frame smooth and shiny as a fish. Second, he was a moral crusader. If you wanted porn and obscenity cleared out of your Cincinnati neighbourhood, Charlie Keating was your man. He got Playboy and Oui magazine banished from news-stands near his office. He denounced the Ramada Hotel for showing adult TV programming in its rooms. He stopped a TV showing of “Oh Calcutta!”, the naked revue, at the old Shubert Theatre. He made sure Larry Flynt got a jail sentence in 1976 for publishing Hustler magazine, and he came down like a ton of bricks on the keeper of the variety store at 8th and State, who sold dirty pictures to schoolboys.