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Also on Air Force One was Joy Underdown, a third-grade teacher from Columbia, who in the early 1960s taught young Ron Reagan, the President's son, when he was a preschooler in Los Angeles. Miss Joy, as the family called her, had been visiting Washington when the long nose of the White House sniffed her out and tempted her to take the power trip. She loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Trouper Plays America Again | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...declare that they are going to sell vacuum cleaners in Kenya ("Hut to hut?" somebody asks), but actually they are off to swing a big uranium swindle. Stranded at a small Italian port while their steamer makes repairs, the six fall in with a discreetly bogus British peer Edward Underdown) and his wife (Jennifer Jones), a virtuoso liar who spends nost of the picture in a state of cadenza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 8, 1954 | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...Marie is that she still has on trousers, and that Kerry is bathing in a small tin tub; Sex, however, is established on its conventional lines by the time Kerry's Destiny Bay runs against Marie's Wings in the Derby. Her Spanish fiancé, Diego (Teddy Underdown), has claimed her and she would have married him if he had not renounced her when it seemed that Wings was going to be disqualified, leaving her dowerless. When she finds Kerry he is once more taking a bath, this time in an Irish stream. But now Marie does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 1, 1937 | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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