Hero Henry Court Herbert Rawlinson is very much his parents child having inherited the predominant character traits of both his gogetting father and his shy retiring mother The father side of his nature manifests itself on the college football field where Henry excels Unfortunately the mother side is evidenced by a streak of cowardice which surfaces at all the wrong times Hoping to expunge the cowardly part of his makeup Henry hires a bunch of selfstyled mentalists to concentrate his problems away Pretty soon Henry is a virtual slave to the whims of the mentalists who push his emotional buttons with reckless abandon