Addison Beecher Colvin ("Cal") Whipple (July 15, 1918 – March 17, 2013) was an American journalist, editor, historian and author.

[4][5] for fear of “damaging morale on the home front.” “I went from army captain to major to colonel to general,” Whipple recalled, “until I wound up in the office of an Assistant Secretary of the Air Corps, who decided, ‘This has to go to the White House.’”[3] Elmer Davis, Director of the United States Office of War Information, felt the censorship rules should be loosened.

Some readers attacked Life for exposing the public to more information about the war than they were prepared for, or for engaging in "morbid sensationalism.

His study of the clipper ship era, The Challenge, won Honorable Mention as a John Lyman Book Award.

Whipple taught at the Harvard-Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Course, and was a member of the editorial board of the Harper's Dictionary of Contemporary English Usage.