Mossback’s Northwest: How Hollywood helped produce a Boeing cover-up

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Mossback’s Northwest: How Hollywood helped produce a Boeing cover-up

He was a Hollywood art director and designer who worked on classic musicals of the late 1930s, ones with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald and Busby Berkeley choreographed extravaganzas, the kind of movies that lit up the theater. He was an art director at Golden Age MGM, and was nominated for an Oscar in 1940. He married one of the screen’s biggest stars — Veronica Lake. John Stewart Detlie was right at the hear…