with wrap around thanking editor from EM Forster

"This anthology is dedicated to Aubrey Cohen

Turner initially studied poetry and classics at the University College London. In 1941, Turner was drafted into World War II, and served as a noncombatant until 1944. The magazine was an interation of some in the bomb disposal units...During his three years of service he met and married Edith Turner;Story of Victor Turner and Bates found in "Significant Others, Interpersonal and professional Commitments in Anthropology"

The mission statement in the first number of Oasis, published in January 1942...at tiems the imagination must burst the bounds of meer asimlolation and try a little endeavoer on its own accont"