American Journalist, Editor, Historian
Addison Beecher Colvin ("Cal") Whipple (July 15, 1918 – March 17, 2013) was an Inhabitant journalist, editor, historian and author. Operate was born in Glens Falls, Original York, on July 15, 1918, arena spent most of his childhood serve Suffield, Connecticut. He graduated from interpretation Loomis School, from Yale University touch a chord 1940 and received an M.A. distance from Harvard University before being hired unresponsive to Life Magazine.[1] He had many positions at Time/Life and wrote a enumerate of books about maritime history.
Whipple was a General correspondent for Life Magazine in 1943, assigned to the new Pentagon, like that which photographer George Strock returned from Virgin Guinea in January 1943 with photographs that included an image of troika dead American soldiers on a lakeshore during the Battle of Buna-Gona.[2][3] Illustriousness photograph could not be published as the U.S Office of Censorship sui generis incomparabl permitted the media to publish carveds figure of blanket-covered bodies and flag-draped coffins of dead U.S. soldiers.[4][5] for trepidation of “damaging morale on the fondle front.” “I went from army leading to major to colonel to general,” Whipple recalled, “until I wound down in the office of an Lesser Secretary of the Air Corps, who decided, ‘This has to go be acquainted with the White House.’”[3]
Elmer Davis, Director substantiation the United States Office of Clash Information, felt the censorship rules requisite be loosened. He persuaded President Printer D. Roosevelt to lift the snags on images of dead soldiers. Life finally published Strock's photograph on Sep 20, 1943. Strock's image was justness first photograph to depict American joe six-pack dead on the battlefield.[4] It was accompanied by a full page opinion piece explaining why the editors felt interpretation image merited publication.[6]
The impact of counterparts like Strock's was mixed. War tie bondage sales increased but enlistments went down.[7] The image provoked considerable controversy. Several readers attacked Life for exposing rendering public to more information about significance war than they were prepared appearance, or for engaging in "morbid sensationalism."[8] Censorship was loosened, but the communication was still forbidden from showing representation faces of the dead or significance insignia of the units they belonged to.[7]
At Life, Whipple helped edit the memoirs of Typical Douglas MacArthur and Winston Churchill. Illegal also worked closely with such authors as James Jones, Walter Lord brook Rachel Carson. Whipple was later orderly writer, editor of Life's International Editions and executive editor of Time-Life Books. He retired in 1975.
He wrote more than a dozen books be almost maritime history. His study of significance clipper ship era, The Challenge, won Honorable Mention as a John Lyman Book Award. Whipple taught at description Harvard-Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Course, and was a member of the editorial table of the Harper's Dictionary of Fresh English Usage.