Addison Beecher Colvin “Cal” Whipple, war correspondent who became a Washington reporter for Life magazine in 1943, died on St. Patrick’s Day. Cal was responsible for publishing a controversial “Picture of the Week” in Life in 1943, next to an editorial about the reality of World War II. “War Bond sales skyrocketed; and the [government’s] censorship rule was abolished.”

His name appeared as A.B.C. Whipple on many Time-Life Books, where he served as executive editor. Some of his titles (listed in Wikipedia) include:

• Yankee Whalers in the South Seas (1954)
• Pirate: Rascals of the Spanish Main (1957)
• Tall Ships and Great Captains; a Narrative of Famous Sailing Ships Through the Ages and the Courageous Men Who Sailed, Fought, or Raced Them Across the Seas (1960)
• Hero of Trafalgar: The Story of Lord Nelson (1963)
• The Fatal Gift of Beauty; the Final Years of Byron and Shelley (1964)
• All About Nelson (1966)
• The Mysterious Voyage of Captain Kidd (1970)
• Fighting Sail (The Seafarers Series – Time Life Books)(1978)
• Vintage Nantucket (1978)
• The Whalers (The Seafarers Series – Time Life Books) (1978)
• The Whalers (1979)
• The Racing Yachts (The Seafarers Series – Time Life Books) (1980)
• The Clipper Ships (1980)
• The Mediterranean (1981)
• Storm (Planet Earth Series – Time Life Books) (1982)
• World War II in the Mediterranean – (Time Life Books) (1982)
• Restless Ocean (Planet Earth Series – Time Life Books) (1983)
• The Challenge (1987)
• To the Shores of Tripoli: The Birth of the U.S. Navy and Marines (1991)
• Critters: Adventures in Wildest Suburbia (1994)
• Storm (1982)