His clients included Clayton Moore, who played the Lone Ranger, Lou Costello of the comedy team Abbott and Costello, and Pilar Wayne, wife of John Wayne. Resuming his law practice after the war, Kent was involved in tax cases and entertainment and copyright law. They were married, also in Paris, in 1945. In Paris, he met a young French woman, Simone. He was assigned to a California-based unit, the 143rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion. While helping run the bowling alley, and practicing business law, Kent was drafted in 1942.
Neither brother was a bowler, but they sensed a good investment. It stayed under family ownership until the 1960s. Kent and his brother Jack opened a bowling alley, Trojan Bowl, near USC. He moved to Los Angeles in 1939 to practice law. He graduated with honors from Dartmouth College in 1935 and Yale law school in 1938. Leon Earl Kent was born June 23, 1915, in New York. That’s the kind of leadership that inspires troops.”Īfter the war, locals erected in a plaque that, in French, reads: “Here the invader was stopped.” “He wouldn’t ask his troops to do anything he wouldn’t do himself. John Crowe said before a 2011 ceremony at the December 1944 Historical Museum in La Gleize, Belgium. Kent showed was extraordinary leadership,” retired Army Maj.
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