Hubert Pryor, a contributing columnist for the Palm Beach Daily News from 1998 to spring 2008, and an editor who started the AARP publication Modern Maturity, died Tuesday, July 15, 2008, at his home in South Palm Beach. He was 92.

In 1967, Mr. Pryor became editor of Modern Maturity, in the early years of the American Association of Retired Persons. He saw its circulation rise from 700,000 to 7 million.

Modern Maturity is now known as AARP, The Magazine. Since then, the circulation reached more than 30 million. When he retired, Mr. Pryor was an associate director of AARP.

Born in Argentina of British and American parents, Mr. Pryor was educated in English schools in Buenos Aires and the University of London. He began his career as South American correspondent of the wire service then known as the United Press. In 1940, he went to work in the United States as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune.

Later, he was director of shortwave news for CBS and also covered the United Nations in its earliest days following World War II. During the war years, he served as an officer in U.S. Naval Intelligence.

For 15 years after that, he worked as senior editor of Look Magazine and for four years as editor of Science Digest.

After his retirement, he was a free-lance writer in South Palm Beach and contributed columns to the Daily News. In 1995, he published Soul Talk, a book of meditations.

In 1940, he married Ellen May Ach of Brooklyn, N.Y. He later was married to Roberta Baughman Smith of Claremont, Calif., and then to Luanne Williamson van Norden of Denver. He had three sons with Ellen Ach Pryor, Alan of Novato, Calif., and Gerald and David, both of New York City. They survive him, along with six grandchildren and a brother, Louis Pryor, of Palm Beach.

A memorial service in Palm Beach is planned for fall.